Flame, electricity and the camera; man's progress from the first kindling of fire to the wireless telegraph and the photography of color (1900)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday & McClure co. · leaf 126
ed much else of mo-ment, is given in Tin- Intellectual Rue in Electricity, by Park Benjamin.New Yoik, Appleton, 1895. FIRST ELECTRICAL MACHINE 97 (Fig. 23). The device marks the entrance of electricity asa creation of mechanical power on a scale impossible to thefriction of handkerchiefs on glass.… … Fig. 23.Von Guerickes first electrical machine. which resulted from the machines operation were no otherthan the reappearance of this work. Von Guerickescrude device was succeeded by a bottle-shaped cylinder ofglass; next came the circular glass plate whose sparks werecaught on metallic teeth and…
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