Popular electricity in plain English
Popular electricity in plain English is a 1908 popular science primer on electrical topics, published in Chicago by the Popular Engineering Publishing Company for general readers curious about the subject. Its pictures include a hexagonal piano lamp with a fitted metal shade, a junior section header of children playing with a toy train, an advertisement for a 1900 dry battery, and a sectioned diagram of electrical fittings inside a round chamber. A designer could draw on the crisp line engraving, the hand-lettered headings, and the mix of product advertising with technical schematics.
