The Atlantic Cable.
[Difficulties of Laying.] [Congratulatory Messages Between Queen Victoria and President Buchanan.] [The Siphon Recorder.] [Statistics.]
The Dynamo and Its Applications.
[Observations of Faraday and Henry.] [Magneto-Electric Machines of Pixii, and of Saxton.] [Hjorth’s Dynamo of 1855.] [Wilde’s Machine of 1866.] [Siemens’ of 1867.] [Gramme’s of 1870.] [Tesla’s Polyphase Currents.]
The Electric Motor.
[Barlow’s Spur Wheel.] [Dal Negro’s Electric Pendulum.] [Prof. Henry’s Electric Motor.] [Jacobi’s Electric Boat.] [Davenport’s Motor.] [The Neff Motor.] [Dr. Page’s Electric Locomotive.] [Dr. Siemens’ First Electric Railway at Berlin, 1879.] [First Electric Railway in United States, between Baltimore and Hampden, 1885.] [Third Rail System.] [Statistics.] [Electric Railways, and General Electric Company.] [Distribution Electric Current in Principal Cities.]