Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 35
his experiments, but failed in com-mercial results because the only source of energy he could draw upon in histime was that supplied by the rather costly voltaic cells. During Faradays time and subsequently, electricians in Europe and theUnited States were active in formulating further laws… … MAGNETIC FIELDS OF FORCE. III. THE TELEGRAPH. From the date of the discovery that electricity could be conducted to adistance, dreams were indulged that it could be made a means of communi- WONDERS OF ELECTRICITY 27
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