Author: HEDGES Killingworth
Title: Useful Information on Practical Electric Lighting; Notes on the Principal Systems of Electric Light In Use in England and in the United States; The Supply of Electricty by Local Authorities;
Description: London, Spon, 1879 (2nd ed); 1880; 1883; vii, 55pp; 12pp; 31pp 21x14, brown cloth library binding (dated 1904), glt text, original card covers included in binding. Spine extremities slightly pulled, ffep and cover of first publication detached, otherwise very good. Hedges was a key figure in promoting electrical lighting at the end of the 19th century. As well as the second edition of his book with Spon, this binding includes two important articles: one an extract from the proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers, the other a paper read at the annual meeting of the Association of Municipal Engineers and Surveyors in Oxford in 1883.

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