
HISTORY OF ELECTRIC LIGHT
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FOREWORD
CHRONOLOGY OF ELECTRIC LIGHT
HISTORY OF ELECTRIC LIGHT
EARLY RECORDS OF ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
MACHINES GENERATING ELECTRICITY BY FRICTION
THE LEYDEN JAR
ELECTRICITY GENERATED BY CHEMICAL MEANS
IMPROVEMENT OF VOLTA’S BATTERY
Publication 2717.
Language
en
Duration
~2 hours (151K characters)
Series
Smithsonian miscellaneous collections, v. 76, no. 2
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United States: The Smithsonian Institution, 1923.
Credits
Charlene Taylor, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Release date
2022-06-16
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1879–1952
Best known for writing about the history of electric lighting, this early 20th-century author combined technical curiosity with a talent for vivid historical detail. His books helped preserve the stories of inventors, lamps, and the fast-changing world of illumination.
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