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H. S. Norrie
A practical early-20th-century writer on electricity, this author turned complex workshop knowledge into clear, hands-on guidance for readers interested in coils, gas lighting, and related technologies. The books remain snapshots of a moment when electrical experiment and everyday engineering were closely intertwined.
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About the author
Published under the name H. S. Norrie, this writer is identified in Project Gutenberg and library records as Norman H. Schneider or Norman Hugh Schneider. The works connected with that name focus on applied electrical topics rather than literary fiction, especially induction coils, Tesla coils, batteries, wireless telegraphy, Roentgen radiography, and electric gas-lighting systems.
The best-known books include Induction Coils, How to Make, Use, and Repair Them and Electric Gas Lighting: How to Install Electric Gas Ignition Apparatus. In the preface to Induction Coils, the author presents the book as a practical manual built from established American and English methods, which fits the straightforward, instructional style of the work.
Although little biographical information seems easy to confirm beyond the name behind the pseudonym, the surviving books suggest a technically minded author writing for experimenters, mechanics, and ambitious amateurs at a time when electricity was still new and exciting in everyday life.