This volume of sources examines electric power, politics and culture in Victorian Britain. The materials review the formalization of electric power infrastructures as they took shape on a local, national, and imperial scale, and explore how people and electrical engineers imagined electric power networks impacting the present and future.
This volume of sources examines electric power, politics and culture in Victorian Britain. The materials review the formalization of electric power infrastructures as they took shape on a local, national, and imperial scale, and explore how people and electrical engineers imagined electric power networks impacting the present and future.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
Volume III: Electric Power, Politics and Culture Series Introduction General Introduction Volume III Introduction Part 1. Political Discourse 1.The Electrical Minister 2. The Use of the Electric Light at Places of Holiday Resort 3. New Guinea Natives and Electric Light 4. The Electric Lighting Act 1882 5. The Electrical Exhibition in Bingley Hall 6. Cross Committee Report on Electric Power Supply Part 2. Empire 7. Visit of the Mikado to the Lighthouse Department 8. The Raub Mines Electric Power Installation 9. Chief Justice Temple, On British Honduras, Its History, Trade, and Natural Resources 10. F. A. Abel, Electricity Applied to Explosive Purposes 11. Electricity in the East Part 3. Literature 12. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein 13. Richard Johns, Mr. Hippsley: The Electrical Gentleman 14. Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Coming Race 15. Ella Fuller Maitland, A Special Pleader 16. Benjamin Lumley, Electricity in Montalluyah 17. Ismar Thiusen (John Macnie), Looking Forward 18. Marie Corelli, The Electric Creed 19. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 2000-1887 Part 4. Domestication 20. Edouard Hospitalier, Domestic Electricity for Amateurs 21. J.E.H. Alice Gordon, Decorative Electricity 22. Thomas Bolas, The Fire Risks Incidental to Electric Lighting 23. William H. Preece, Domestic Electric Lighting Part 5. Engineering 24. Dinner of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 25. John Perry, On Mechanical Engineering in Electrical Industries Index
Volume III: Electric Power, Politics and Culture Series Introduction General Introduction Volume III Introduction Part 1. Political Discourse 1.The Electrical Minister 2. The Use of the Electric Light at Places of Holiday Resort 3. New Guinea Natives and Electric Light 4. The Electric Lighting Act 1882 5. The Electrical Exhibition in Bingley Hall 6. Cross Committee Report on Electric Power Supply Part 2. Empire 7. Visit of the Mikado to the Lighthouse Department 8. The Raub Mines Electric Power Installation 9. Chief Justice Temple, On British Honduras, Its History, Trade, and Natural Resources 10. F. A. Abel, Electricity Applied to Explosive Purposes 11. Electricity in the East Part 3. Literature 12. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein 13. Richard Johns, Mr. Hippsley: The Electrical Gentleman 14. Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Coming Race 15. Ella Fuller Maitland, A Special Pleader 16. Benjamin Lumley, Electricity in Montalluyah 17. Ismar Thiusen (John Macnie), Looking Forward 18. Marie Corelli, The Electric Creed 19. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 2000-1887 Part 4. Domestication 20. Edouard Hospitalier, Domestic Electricity for Amateurs 21. J.E.H. Alice Gordon, Decorative Electricity 22. Thomas Bolas, The Fire Risks Incidental to Electric Lighting 23. William H. Preece, Domestic Electric Lighting Part 5. Engineering 24. Dinner of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 25. John Perry, On Mechanical Engineering in Electrical Industries Index
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