A Guide to Electric Lighting: For the Use of Householders and Amateurs (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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I. The applications of Electricity to the furtherance of the conveniences and comforts of civilised life have become so varied and so important, that it behoves all who lay any claim to an intelligent knowledge of their surroundings to, acquirefsome: cognizance, how ever slight, oi the laws which regulate these applica tions, and of the apparatus and instruments by means of which the desiredgrcsults are°obtained. In another work* the author has-r treated 1of the application of electricity to signalling purposes; it is the scope of this book to show by what means electricity can be made subservient to the purposes of illumination and the transmission of motive power.

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