Popular electricity in plain English
A 1908 popular electricity primer published in Chicago by the Popular Engineering Publishing Company, written in plain English for general readers and tradesmen curious about electrical machinery. Its pictures are halftone photographs of engines and dynamo-type machines set against a cream background, alongside line diagrams of a circle with a dimensioned radius and a wood-engraved church struck by lightning under storm clouds. A designer might take the clean, technical product-photo look of the machines and the simple diagram style for industrial or retro engineering layouts.
