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IN a lecture on “Electricity as a Motive Power,” delivered to the working men of Sheffield, August 23, 1879, the following question was asked: “And why not now? Why should not the mountain air that has given you workmen of Hallamshire in past times your sinew, your independence of character, blow over your grindstone again? Why should not division of labour be carried to its end, and power be brought to you instead of you to the power? Let us hope then that in the next century electricity may undo whatever harm steam may have done during the present, and that the future workmen of Sheffield, instead of breathing the necessarily impure air of crowded factories, may find himself again on the hill-side, but with electric energy laid on at his command.”
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AYRTON, W. Electrical Power Distribution . Nature 62, 296–300 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062296a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/062296a0