The age of electricity. From amber-soul to telephone. By Park Benjamin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922.

Contributor:

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electricity.

Genre:

Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1886.

Physical Description:

viii, 381 p. front., illus., 5 pl., diagrs. 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1886.

Contents:

The myth of the amber soul

The discoveries of the early experimenters

The cagin of the lightning

Electricity in harness

The galvanic battery, and the conversion of chemical energy into electrical energy

The electro-magnet, and the conversion of electricity into magnetism

The dynamo-electric machine, and the conversion of magnetism and mechanical motion into electricity

The electric light- The conversion of electrical energy into heat and light

Electric-motors, and the conversion of electrical energy into mechanical energy

Electrolysis-electro-metallurgy and the storage-battery

The electric telegraph

The speaking telephone

The induction coil, and powerful electric discharges

The applications of electricity to medicine, war, railways, time, music, etc.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: "Olive green cloth stamped with gold lightning bolts, red title with gold outline on a field of gray swirls; red title with gold outline on spine with red caduceus" -- Minsky.

Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.

Cited in:

Minsky, Richard. American decorated publishers' bindings, 1872-1929 (electronic resource), v. 3, pg. 30

OCLC:

4370244