Overview

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.

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Author:   Nathan Kapoor
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.800kg
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9781032281698

ISBN 10:   1032281693
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   22 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Table of Contents

Volume 2: Electric Power in Practice Series Introduction General Introduction Volume 2: Introduction Part 1. Industry 1. Arthur Vaughan Abbot, “Industrial Niagara”, Review of Reviews 12 (September 1895), pp. 295–299. 2. Comte Theodore du Moncel, C. J. Wharton, trans., Electricity as a Motive Power (London: E & F. N. Spon., 1883), pp. 1-6. Part 2. Transportation 3. Uriah Clarke to William Sturgeon, “Description of an Electro-Magnetic Carriage”, The Annals of Electricity Magnetism and Chemistry and Guardian of Experimental Science, September 15, 1840, pp. 304-305 Part 3. Generating Power 4. John Tyndall, “Origin of Power in the Voltaic Pile”, in Faraday as Discoverer (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1868), pp. 59-66. 5. James Blyth, “On the Application of Wind Power to the Generation and Storage Electricity”, Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, May 2, 1888, pp. 363-364. 6. C. Scott Snell, “The Sea – A Source of Power”, The Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review, December 9, 1882, pp. 454-455. 7. Henry Dircks, Three Centuries of Perpetual Motion (London: E. & F. N. Spon., 1861), 239-241 8. Thomas H. Blakesley, “Alternating Currents”, The Electrician, May 2, 1885, pp. 199-200, 258-259, 287, 326-327, 373-374, 411-412, 470-471, 510-511 9. Emile Garke, Manual of Electrical Undertakings (London: P.S. King & Son., 1897), pp. iii, 123-125, 138-141, 150-151 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”, Reports on the Management and Discipline of Convict Stations and Prisons during the Year 1892 (Cape Town: W. A. Richards & Sons, Government Printers, 1893), pp. 13-18 12. C. William Siemens, “The Electrical Transmission of Power”, The Practical Application of Electricity (London: Great George Street, 1884), pp. 56-80 13. Edward Standford, Stanford’s Map of London According to the Local Government Act. 1888 (London, 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”, Philosophical Transactions, December 31, 1810, pp. 16-74. 15. “The Electric Light”, London Illustrated News, December 2, 1848, p. 343 16. “Public Exhibition of the Electric Light”, Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Adviser 26, August 10, 1850, pp. 9-10. 17. Charles Flesch, “Electric Lighting in Australia”, Western Electrician, August 24, 1889, pp. 110-111 18. Thomas Stevenson, “Electric Light,”, in Lighthouse Construction and Illumination (London: E. & F. N. Spon., 1881), 178-191 Part 5. Medicine 19. “Of Somnambulists”, The Scots Magazine 62, April 1, 1800, pp. 235-238 20. John Aberneth, “Lecture 1”, in Physiological Lectures, Exhibiting a General View of Mr. Hunter’s Physiology (London: Longman, 1817), 25-54 21. “Melancholy Accident at Westfield”, Carlisle Journal, May 31, 1850 22. George Eliot, Scenes of a Clerical Life (London: William Blackwood, 1858), pp. 206-207 23. Arthur Smee, “Theory of Instinct and Reason”, in Instinct and Reason: Deduced from Electro-Biology (London: Reeve and Benham, 1850), pp. 204-221 24. Charolette Bronte, Shirley (London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1874), p. 348 25. James Murray, “On the Electrical Causes of Epidemics”, in Electricity as a Cause of Cholera, or Other Epidemics and the Relation of Galvanism to the Action of Remedies, (Dublin: James McGlashan, 1849), pp. 3-10 26. Thomas Addison, “On the Influence Electricity as a Remedy in Certain Convulsive and Spasmodic Diseases”, Guy’s Hospital Reports, vol II (London: Samuel Highley, 1837), pp. 493-507 27. “Is the Nervous System a Coherer?”, The Electrical Review 42, March 4, 1898, p. 282 28. John Bovee Dods, Lecture II, “Mental Electricity, or Spiritualism,” and Lecture IV “Philosophy of Disease and Nervous Force”. The Philosophy of Mesmerism and Electrical Psychology (London: James Burns Progressive Library, 1886), pp. 10-19, 94-105 29. “Electricity and the Sewage Problem”, The Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review, August 25, 1893, pp. 198-199 30. “Photography in Medicine: Photoelectric Apparatus”, The Electrician 2, no. 10, 295-297 Index

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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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