Hubert, Philip Gengembre, 1852-1925 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 313
day to ten.But electricity, according to even conservativejudges, will accomplish infinitely more. It will make possible the harnessing of vast forces of19 290 INVENTORS nature, such as the falls of Niagara, because theelectric current can be transported from place toplace at small cost and it is… … Charles F. Brush. board for producing electricity. Here is a forceequal to that of a million Niagaras going towaste. The late Clerk Maxwell, when asked by a dis-tinguished scientist what was the greatest scien-tific discovery of the last half-century, replied : That the Gramme machine is…
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