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Chapters
63 totalHISTORY 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
Description
Publication 2717.
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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
Jun 16, 2022
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
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About the author
Henry Schroeder
1879–1952
An electrical engineer with a historian’s eye, he wrote lively, clear accounts of how electric lighting developed from early experiments into everyday technology. His work is especially valued by readers interested in the story of the incandescent lamp.
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