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Popular electricity in plain English

1908 · Chicago : [Popular Engineering Pub. Co.] · 18 pictures

A 1908 popular science primer on electricity, published in Chicago by the Popular Engineering Publishing Company for lay readers wanting plain-language explanations of the subject. Its pictures are halftone photographs and line drawings of electrical machinery, a crank-driven generator, a telegraph operator room, and a dynamo wiring diagram, useful to designers wanting early industrial technical imagery with clear, mechanical detail.

Electricity

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