History of electric light

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History of electric light

by Henry Schroeder

EN·~2 hours·63 chapters

Chapters

63 total
1

HISTORY OF ELECTRIC LIGHT

0:20
2

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

3:28
3

FOREWORD

2:45
4

CHRONOLOGY OF ELECTRIC LIGHT

5:18
5

HISTORY OF ELECTRIC LIGHT

0:04
6

EARLY RECORDS OF ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM

2:16
7

MACHINES GENERATING ELECTRICITY BY FRICTION

1:33
8

THE LEYDEN JAR

1:53
9

ELECTRICITY GENERATED BY CHEMICAL MEANS

2:38
10

IMPROVEMENT OF VOLTA’S BATTERY

1:05

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

2022-06-16

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Henry Schroeder

Henry Schroeder

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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