Electric Power in Victorian Britain

Dr. Nathan Kapoor is an Affiliate Professor of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Department History at Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA. Nathan Kapoor is a scholar of nineteenth and twentieth century technologies of electrification, with a specialisation in the history of British electrification at home and in its colonies, most especially New Zealand.

• Volume II: Electric Power in PracticeSeries IntroductionGeneral IntroductionVolume II IntroductionPart 1. Industry1. Arthur Vaughan Abbot, Industrial Niagara2. Comte Theodore du Moncel, Electricity as a Motive PowerPart 2. Transportation3. Uriah Clarke to William Sturgeon, Description of an Electro-Magnetic CarriagePart 3. Generating Power4. John Tyndall, Origin of Power in the Voltaic Pile5. James Blyth, On the Application of Wind Power to the Generation and Storage of Electricity6. C. Scott Snell, The Sea – A Source of Power7. Henry Dircks, Three Centuries of Perpetual Motion8. Thomas H. Blakesley, Alternating Currents9. Emile Garke, Manual of Electrical Undertakings10. John Hopkinson, Patent No., 618,175.V (January 24, 1899) Automatic Switch for Distribution of Electricity11. H. Basil Roper, Report of the Inspector of Prison for the Year 189212. C. William Siemens, The Electrical Transmission of Power13. Edward Standford, Stanford’s Map of London According to the Local Government Act. 1888Part 4. Light14. Humphry Davy, On Some New Electrochemical Researches, on Various Objects, particularly Metallic Bodies, from the Alkalies, and Earths, and on some Combinations of Hydrogene15. The Electric Light16. Public Exhibition of the Electric Light17. Charles Flesch, Electric Lighting in Australia18. Thomas Stevenson, Electric LightPart 5. Medicine19. Of Somnambulists20. John Abernethy, Lecture 1, Physiological Lectures, Exhibiting a General View of Mr. Hunter’s Physiology21. Melancholy Accident at Westfield22. George Eliot, Scenes of a Clerical Life23. Arthur Smee, Theory of Instinct and Reason24. Charlotte Bronte, Shirley25. James Murray, On the Electrical Causes of Epidemics26. Thomas Addison, On the Influence of Electricity as a Remedy in Certain Convulsive and Spasmodic Diseases27. Is the Nervous System a Coherer?28. John Bovee Dods, Lecture II, Mental Electricity, or Spiritualism and Lecture IV, Philosophy of Disease and Nervous Force29. Electricity and the Sewage Problem30. Photography in Medicine: Photoelectric ApparatusIndex