The Electric Current : How Produced and How Used (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Electric Current: How Produced and How Used

But a social revolution even greater than that produced by the electric telegraph is now looming in the immediate future, in the possibilities underlying the electric trans mission of mechanical power to a distance from the source where it is generated, and the distribution of large quantities of energy amongst a number of small consumers. What these possibilities are, has been well described by one of our leading statesmen, who naturally regards the question dispassionately from a statesman's standpoint, and without the enthusiasm of the scientist or the inventor. We think.

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