Abstract
THIS book professes to be a popular account of all the more important practical applications of electricity that have during the last five years drawn so much public attention to that science. No better popular book than that of M. Hospitalier has appeared, and were it not for certain defects, chiefly of style, the present translation by Dr. Julius Maier would have been admirable. It deals in a fairly easy and at the same time fairly accurate manner with many technical matters, and will no doubt prove a very popular work. Part I. treats of the sources of electricity—batteries and dynamo-electric machines. Part II., which is naturally the largest section of the work, is devoted to Electric Lighting. Part III., the least satisfactory perhaps of the whole, and the one that has suffered most by the fact of being a translation of a foreign work, comprises Telephones and Microphones. In the fourth and last section a number of miscellaneous applications are described, including Electric Motors.
The Modern Applications of Electricity.
By E. Hospitalier. Translated and Enlarged by Julius Maier, Ph.D. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1882.)
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The Modern Applications of Electricity . Nature 26, 289–290 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026289a0
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