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This volume of primary sources examines electric power, politics and culture in Victorian Britain. The materials review the formalization of electric power infrastructures or ""grids"" as they took shape on a local, national, and imperial scale, and explore how citizens, novelists, doctors, politicians, and electrical engineers imagined electric power networks impacting the present and future.

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Author:   Nathan Kapoor
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.690kg
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9781032281728

ISBN 10:   1032281723
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   22 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Volume 3: Electric Power, Politics and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain Series Preface General Introduction Volume 3: Introduction Part 1. Political Discourse 1.“The Electrical Minister”, Punch 10, March 28, 1846, p. 145 2. “The Use of the Electric Light at Places of Holiday Resort”, The Electrician, October 4, 1879, p. 236 3. “New Guinea Natives and Electric Light”, The Electrician, January 24, 1885, p. 214 4. The Electric Lighting Act 1882 5. “The Electrical Exhibition in Bingley Hall”, The Electrical Engineer, July 26, 1889, pp. 75-76 6. Cross Committee Report on Electric Power Supply, Parliamentary Papers 1898, HC 213, Question 1975-1997, pp.117-119 Part 2. Empire 7. “Visit of the Mikado to the Lighthouse Department”, Japan Weekly Mail, March 21, 1874, pp. 224-226 8. “The Raub Mines Electric Power Installation”, Indian Engineering, February 12, 1898, pp. 108-109 9. Chief Justice Temple, “On British Honduras, Its History, Trade, and Natural Resources”, Journal of the Society of Arts, January 15, 1857, pp. 113-115 10. F. A. Abel, “Electricity Applied to Explosive Purposes”, The Practical Application of Electricity (London: Great George Street, 1884), 107-148 (Perhaps Sections) 11. “Electricity in the East”, Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review, February 14, 1890, p. 179. Part 3. Literature 12. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1888), pp. 47-56 13. Richard Johns, “Mr. Hippsley: The Electrical Gentleman”, Bentley’s Miscellany IV (London: Richard, 1838), pp. 374-382 14. Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Coming Race (New York: Henry L. Hinton, 1873), pp. 28-30 15. Ella Fuller Maitland, “A Special Pleader”, Pages from the Day-book of Bethia Hardacre (London: Chapman & Hall, 1896), p.135 16. Benjamin Lumley, “Electricity in Montalluyah”, in Another World, or Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah, 2nd ed. (London: Samuel Tinsely, 1873), pp. 54-59 17. Ismar Thiusen (John Macnie), Looking Forward (London: G. P. Putnam and Sons, 1890), 20-27. 18. Marie Corelli, “The Electric Creed” from The Romance of Two Worlds (London: Richard Bentley and Sons, 1895), pp. 307-331. 19. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, and Company, 1889), pp. 110-122 Part 4. Domestication 20. Edouard Hospitalier, Domestic Electricity for Amateurs C. J. Wharton (trans.), (E. & F. N. Spon., 1885), pp. 1-8 21. J.E.H. Alice Gordon, Decorative Electricity (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1891), pp. 1-16 22. Thomas Bolas, “The Fire Risks Incidental to Electric Lighting”, Journal for the Society of Arts, May 5, 1882, pp. 663-672 23. William H. Preece, “Domestic Electric Lighting”, The Electrician, 16, 1885-1886, pp. 394-395. Part 5. Engineering 24. “Dinner of the Institution of Electrical Engineers”, Electrician 24, 1889, pp. 12-15 25. John Perry, “On Mechanical Engineering in Electrical Industries”, Electric Power 1, December 1889, pp. 377-382. 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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