Story of Electricity, The by MUNRO, John show

Story of Electricity, The by MUNRO, John

Summary: In the book's preface, the author writes: "Let anyone stop to consider how he individually would be affected if all electrical service were suddenly to cease, and he cannot fail to appreciate the claims of electricity to attentive study."In these days when we take for granted all kinds of technology - communications, entertainment, medical, military, industrial and domestic - it is interesting to learn what progress had been made in the fields of electricity and technology by the beginning of the 20th century.Including the dawn of hydro-electric power, the x-ray, the phonograph, the telephone and the wireless telegraph, this book explains the pioneering work of the men who made our modern world possible, and sets us wondering what the next century may bring - providing that we do not manage to destroy our planet in the meantime. The Gutenberg text of the 1915 edition (as recorded) does not have the benefit of the book's many diagrams. Also available, however, is an online book scan of the 1912 edition which includes the illustrations and coincides largely with the text recorded. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

Podcasts:

 01 - Preface; Chapter I: The Electricity of Friction | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:34:04

01 - Preface; Chapter I: The Electricity of Friction

 02 - Chapter II: The Electricity of Chemistry | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:25:17

02 - Chapter II: The Electricity of Chemistry

 03 - Chapter III: The Electricity of Heat | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:08:12

03 - Chapter III: The Electricity of Heat

 04 - Chapter IV: The Electricity of Magnetism | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:46:55

04 - Chapter IV: The Electricity of Magnetism

 05 - Chapter V: Electrolysis | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:14:20

05 - Chapter V: Electrolysis

 06 - Chapter VI: The Telegraph and Telephone | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:52:36

06 - Chapter VI: The Telegraph and Telephone

 07 - Chapter VII: Electric Light and Heat | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:42

07 - Chapter VII: Electric Light and Heat

 08 - Chapter VIII: Electric Power | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:33:40

08 - Chapter VIII: Electric Power

 09 - Chapter IX: Minor Uses of Electricity | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:49:42

09 - Chapter IX: Minor Uses of Electricity

 10 - Chapter X: The Wireless Telegraph | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:27:57

10 - Chapter X: The Wireless Telegraph

 11 - Chapter XI: Electro-Chemistry and Electro-Metallurgy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:31:35

11 - Chapter XI: Electro-Chemistry and Electro-Metallurgy

 12 - Chapter XII: Electric Trains | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:23:22

12 - Chapter XII: Electric Trains

 13 - Appendix | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:18:15

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