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 III: Electric Power, Politics and CultureSeries IntroductionGeneral IntroductionVolume III IntroductionPart 1. Political Discourse1.The Electrical Minister2. The Use of the Electric Light at Places of Holiday Resort3. New Guinea Natives and Electric Light4. The Electric Lighting Act 18825. The Electrical Exhibition in Bingley Hall6. Cross Committee Report on Electric Power SupplyPart 2. Empire7. Visit of the Mikado to the Lighthouse Department8. The Raub Mines Electric Power Installation9. Chief Justice Temple, On British Honduras, Its History, Trade, and Natural Resources10. F. A. Abel, Electricity Applied to Explosive Purposes11. Electricity in the EastPart 3. Literature12. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein13. Richard Johns, Mr. Hippsley: The Electrical Gentleman14. Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Coming Race15. Ella Fuller Maitland, A Special Pleader16. Benjamin Lumley, Electricity in Montalluyah17. Ismar Thiusen (John Macnie), Looking Forward18. Marie Corelli, The Electric Creed19. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 2000-1887Part 4. Domestication20. Edouard Hospitalier, Domestic Electricity for Amateurs21. J.E.H. Alice Gordon, Decorative Electricity22. Thomas Bolas, The Fire Risks Incidental to Electric Lighting23. William H. Preece, Domestic Electric LightingPart 5. Engineering 24. Dinner of the Institution of Electrical Engineers25. John Perry, On Mechanical Engineering in Electrical IndustriesIndex