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THE STATE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY AT THE DAWN OF THE 20th
CENTURY
ARCHIVAL CD--of a rare old bound volume
"Historical Number of the ELECTRICAL REVIEW,
New York, 12 January 1901, Volume XXXVIII, No. 2,
Electrical Review Publishing Company, 163 pages.
This is an innovative ARCHIVAL CD which contains a rare publication on the history of
electricity and its uses in 1901. For the first week in the twentieth century the Electrical
Review published a special hardbound issue dedicated to a
celebration of the advances of Science and Technology at the turn of the century. Special
emphasis is placed on the many applications of ELECTRICITY up to the new century.
The scan below shows the 1901 ELECTRICAL REVIEW CD and a few pages
(the pages will appear larger on the actual
CD).
(See below for further description of content.*).
1901 Historical Number of the ELECTRICAL REVIEW CD
ROM
A few of the specific topics covered in these informative articles and advertisements (many
are illustrated) include:
Arc lamps, transformers, electric cables & wires, electro medical treatment, steam railroad train
equiptment, water wheels, induction coils, fans, ceiling fans, moters, batteries, dynamos, steel
bridges, machine companies, electric lamps, voltmeters, ammeters, electricity measuring
instruments, deep sea cables, underground cables, aerial cables, telegrapher's keys and
equiptment, electrical courses and schools, electric railway equiptment, generators, insulators,
gasoline engines, platinum, soldering, Alessandro Volta, Georg Simon Ohm, Andre Marie
Ampere, Joseph Henry, James Watt, Sir Humphrey Davy, Michael Faraday, James Clerk
Maxwell, William Sturgeon, Lord Kelvin, Thomas Alva Edison, Heinrich Hertz, Hermann Von
Helmholtz, Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen, Sir William Crookes, Samuel Morse, Cyrus W. Field,
Alexander Graham Bell, Gardiner G. Hubbard, Theodore N. Vail, Guglielmo Marconi, William
Wallace, (all of these men and many more are pictured), the invention and history of the
telephone, wireless telegraphy, the history of arc lighting, history of electic lighting, Edison's
reminiscences of the first central station, history of the X ray, electrolytic refining, electric heating,
electric linemen, electrical supplies of every description, electric automobiles, gasoline
automobiles and vehicles, telephone switchboards, advertisements by General Electric Company,
John A. Roebling's Sons Company, Bishop Gutta Percha Company, Edison Manufacturing
Company, Columbia Automobiles, Westinghouse Electric Company, Babcock and Wilcox
Company, and countless others. Much, much more in this hard-to-find volume.
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