1st Edition
Electric Power in Victorian Britain Volume III: Electric Power, Politics and Culture
This volume of primary sources examines electric power, politics and culture in Victorian Britain. The materials review the formalization of electric power infrastructures or "grids" as they took shape on a local, national, and imperial scale, and explore how citizens, novelists, doctors, politicians, and electrical engineers imagined electric power networks impacting the present and future.
Volume III: Electric Power, Politics and Culture
Series Introduction
General Introduction
Volume III Introduction
Part 1. Political Discourse
1.The Electrical Minister
2. The Use of the Electric Light at Places of Holiday Resort
3. New Guinea Natives and Electric Light
4. The Electric Lighting Act 1882
5. The Electrical Exhibition in Bingley Hall
6. Cross Committee Report on Electric Power Supply
Part 2. Empire
7. Visit of the Mikado to the Lighthouse Department
8. The Raub Mines Electric Power Installation
9. Chief Justice Temple, On British Honduras, Its History, Trade, and Natural Resources
10. F. A. Abel, Electricity Applied to Explosive Purposes
11. Electricity in the East
Part 3. Literature
12. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
13. Richard Johns, Mr. Hippsley: The Electrical Gentleman
14. Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Coming Race
15. Ella Fuller Maitland, A Special Pleader
16. Benjamin Lumley, Electricity in Montalluyah
17. Ismar Thiusen (John Macnie), Looking Forward
18. Marie Corelli, The Electric Creed
19. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 2000-1887
Part 4. Domestication
20. Edouard Hospitalier, Domestic Electricity for Amateurs
21. J.E.H. Alice Gordon, Decorative Electricity
22. Thomas Bolas, The Fire Risks Incidental to Electric Lighting
23. William H. Preece, Domestic Electric Lighting
Part 5. Engineering
24. Dinner of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
25. John Perry, On Mechanical Engineering in Electrical Industries
Index
Biography
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.
