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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.

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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.

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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