The materials in this volume explore how the transformation of electric power imprinted on the political landscape of Great Britain and the Empire. Outside the lecture halls and laboratories, electric power became a source for inventors, politicians, economists, and the public to explore, define, and lament how energy consumption should look. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of the History of Science.
The materials in volume two explore how the transformationof electric power imprinted on the political landscape of Great Britain and the Empire. Accompanied The collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of the History of Science.
Volume II: Electric Power in Practice
Series Introduction
General Introduction
Volume II Introduction
Part
1. Industry
1. Arthur Vaughan Abbot, Industrial Niagara
2. Comte Theodore du Moncel, Electricity as a Motive Power
Part
2. Transportation
3. Uriah Clarke to William Sturgeon, Description of an Electro-Magnetic
Carriage
Part
3. Generating Power
4. John Tyndall, Origin of Power in the Voltaic Pile
5. James Blyth, On the Application of Wind Power to the Generation and
Storage of Electricity
6. C. Scott Snell, The Sea A Source of Power
7. Henry Dircks, Three Centuries of Perpetual Motion
8. Thomas H. Blakesley, Alternating Currents
9. Emile Garke, Manual of Electrical Undertakings
10. John Hopkinson, Patent No., 618,175.V (January 24, 1899) Automatic Switch
for Distribution of Electricity
11. H. Basil Roper, Report of the Inspector of Prison for the Year 1892
12. C. William Siemens, The Electrical Transmission of Power
13. Edward Standford, Stanfords Map of London According to the Local
Government Act. 1888
Part
4. Light
14. Humphry Davy, On Some New Electrochemical Researches, on Various Objects,
particularly Metallic Bodies, from the Alkalies, and Earths, and on some
Combinations of Hydrogene
15. The Electric Light
16. Public Exhibition of the Electric Light
17. Charles Flesch, Electric Lighting in Australia
18. Thomas Stevenson, Electric Light
Part
5. Medicine
19. Of Somnambulists
20. John Abernethy, Lecture 1, Physiological Lectures, Exhibiting a General
View of Mr. Hunters Physiology
21. Melancholy Accident at Westfield
22. George Eliot, Scenes of a Clerical Life
23. Arthur Smee, Theory of Instinct and Reason
24. Charlotte Bronte, Shirley
25. James Murray, On the Electrical Causes of Epidemics
26. Thomas Addison, On the Influence of Electricity as a Remedy in Certain
Convulsive and Spasmodic Diseases
27. Is the Nervous System a Coherer?
28. John Bovee Dods, Lecture II, Mental Electricity, or Spiritualism and
Lecture IV, Philosophy of Disease and Nervous Force
29. Electricity and the Sewage Problem
30. Photography in Medicine: Photoelectric Apparatus
Index
Dr. Nathan Kapoor is an Affiliate Professor of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Department History at Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA. Nathan Kapoor is a scholar of nineteenth and twentieth century technologies of electrification, with a specialisation in the history of British electrification at home and in its colonies, most especially New Zealand.
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