Victor H. (Victor Hugo) Tousley

Born in 1875, Victor H. Tousley—also published as Victor Hugo Tousley—appears to have been an American technical author whose surviving reputation rests on hands-on books about electricity, illumination, and related trades.

Available catalog records connect his name with works such as Modern Illumination, Theory and Practice and volumes of the Electrical Workers Standard Library. Those titles suggest a writer focused less on abstract theory and more on practical instruction for electricians, contractors, architects, and everyday users of electric light.

Reliable biographical detail beyond his birth year is limited in the sources I could confirm, so much of his life remains obscure. Even so, his books point to a period when electric power and lighting were becoming part of ordinary life, and his writing seems aimed at helping readers understand and use that new technology with confidence.