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The Story of Electricity

by John Munro

In the book's preface, the author writes: "Let anyone stop to consider how he individually would be affected if all electrical service were suddenly to cease, and he cannot fail to appreciate the claims of electricity to attentive study." In these days when we take for granted all kinds of technology - communications, entertainment, medical, military, industrial and domestic - it is interesting to learn what progress had been made in the fields of electricity and technology by the beginning of the 20th century.

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Language

English

Original Language

English

Published In

1896

Authors

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John Munro

England

John F. Munro was a British professor of mechanical engineering at Bristol and author who wrote the science fiction stories A Trip to Venus (1897), Sun-Rise in the Moon (1894) and A Message from Mars...

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02 - Chapter II: The Electricity of Chemistry
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03 - Chapter III: The Electricity of Heat
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04 - Chapter IV: The Electricity of Magnetism
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05 - Chapter V: Electrolysis
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06 - Chapter VI: The Telegraph and Telephone
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07 - Chapter VII: Electric Light and Heat
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08 - Chapter VIII: Electric Power
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09 - Chapter IX: Minor Uses of Electricity
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10 - Chapter X: The Wireless Telegraph
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11 - Chapter XI: Electro-Chemistry and Electro-Metallurgy
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12 - Chapter XII: Electric Trains
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13 - Appendix
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