1904-1905 Modern Electric Practice

Description

Folding Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

A scarce six-volume set.

In the original cloth bindings with cover designs from prolific artist Talwin Morris.

Profusely illustrated throughout the text with diagrams and photographs. 

This is a of essays and materials on the topic of electricity from various experts within the field, complete in six volumes. 

Edited by Magnus Maclean, an electrical engineer who assisted Lord Kelvin in his experiments and later became Professor or Electrical Engineering in Glasgow. 

This set includes:

Vol I - Section I: The Measuring, Generating, Transforming, and Storing of Electric Currents with essays by Alfred Hay, E. W. Marchant, W. C. Mountain and J. Leggat, E. J. Berg, and A. T. Snell. Five plates. 

Vol II - Continues with Section I with essays by M. B. Field, A. F. Berry, and J. T. Niblett. It begins Section II: Electric Lighting and Power Distribution. Three plates and two folding plates.

Vol III - Continues Section II, with essays by W. B. Esson, W. W. Lackie, G. Byng, F. Biliotti and C. J. Robertson. Begins Section III: Electric Tramways. Ten plates. 

Vol IV - Continues Section III, with essays by I. Everson Winslow, A. G. Seaman, H. C. Buckmaster, W. W. Beaumont and Philip Dawson. Seven plates and one folding plate. 

Vol V - With two plates of mini portraits of the series' contributors to the front. Section IV: Boilers and Prime Movers with essays by J. K. Stothert, H. O. Beckh and W. H. Booth. Begins Section V: Miscellaneous Applications of Electricity with an essay by John Shields. Four plates and one folding plate.

Vol VI - With a portrait frontispiece of editor Magnus Maclean. Continues Section V, with essays by A. C. Booth, Dane Sinclair, Daniel Burns, Philip Dawson, Dawson Turner and W. E. Langdon. Errata tipped in to page 1. Seven plates and one folding plate. 

Collated complete.

With eight pages of publisher's advertisements to the rears of all volumes except for Vol I.