The Washington Electrical Hand-Book; Being a Guide for Visitors from Abroad Attending the International Electrical Congress, St. Louis, Mo., September, 1904 - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904. Excerpt: ... ELECTRICAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE UNITED STATES. I T would not be unfair or unsafe to take the electrical I development of a people, or the extent to which a I nation uses electrical applications, as a gauge of its civilization; and from this point of view the data herewith given as to the extent of the industries that are based on electricity in the United States may have more than a passing value. So far as is known, this country is the only one in which a sustained effort has been made by the Government to submit to the statistical processes of census inquiry the whole range of the electrical arts; but it is believed that in a few years similar figures will be obtainable for all portions of the civilized world, enabling any country to measure itself with others as to its utilization of the telegraph, the telephone, the trolley, the electric light, the electric motor and other kindred appliances by means of which intelligence can be swiftly transmitted, distances be shortened, the darkness brightened, labor lessened, and sickness alleviated. While some figures have been available as to certain branches of electrical work, in various countries, at different times, the rapid growth of this essentially modern department of discovery and endeavor renders it highly necessary that every civilized country should now furnish for itself and others all these important bases of comparison. As to the United States of America, it seems only natural that with its time-consuming remoteness from the Old World, its vast natural resources, its energetic population, and its bent for industrial organization, associated with an unusual keenness of the inventive faculties, there should have been manifested a swift appreciation of all the benefits that practical electricity could...

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