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Add this copy of Electric Lighting: A Practical Treatise to cart. $18.00, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2022 by Legare Street Press.
Add this copy of Electric Lighting: A Practical Treatise to cart. $28.30, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2022 by Legare Street Press.
Add this copy of Electric Lighting a Practical Treatise to cart. $374.42, very good condition, Sold by Rooke Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BATH, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1878 by E. & F. N. Spon.
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Not Stated. Very Good. A very scarce first edition of Paget Bigg's translation of this interesting study on electric lighting, originally written in French by Hippolyte Fontaine, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work. A very scarce work. An interesting treatise on electric lighting, written at a time when it was still a phenomena. With many in-text engravings. Originally written by Hippolyte Fontaine, a French electrical engineer. He helped in the development of the first industrially viable electrical generator. Translated from French by Paget Higgs, who also wrote 'The Electric Light in its Practical Application', and 'Electric Transmission of Power'. Two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, though with some loss to the head and tail of the spine. Light marking to the boards. A little bumping to the extremities. Institutional stamps to the pastedowns, endpapers, and to the reverse of the title page. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the odd spot, mostly to the first and last few pages. Very Good.
Add this copy of Electric Lighting, a Practical Treatise to cart. $425.00, very good condition, Sold by Walden Antiquarian Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Signal Mountain, TN, UNITED STATES, published 1878 by E. & F. N. Spon.
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Very Good. Brown Cloth with Gilt titles. Pages Clean, Binding Tight. Slight foxing to end page, rest remarkably clean. 48 Technical Engravings of early working lighting apparatuses, Translated from the French by Paget Higgs. Hippolyte was the first electrical engineer to transmit electricity by wire. He also worked on the Gramme machine, which was the first viable electric dynamo/generator. He used this knowledge to demonstrate the reversibility of the generator and send electricity through a 2 mile lentht of copper wire. One of the earliest compilations on electric lighting, published a year before Edison patented the first carbon lamp.
