Flame, electricity and the camera; man's progress from the first kindling of fire to the wireless telegraph and the photography of color
A popular history of technology by George Iles, published in New York by Doubleday & McClure in 1900, tracing fire, electricity, photography and wireless telegraphy for general adult readers. Plates mix halftone spectra and photographs with line diagrams of coils, relays, induction apparatus and vortex rings, offering designers stark white-on-black spectral bands, lettered instrument schematics and hatched cutaway drawings.
