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Soft cover. Condizione: Good. pp333-358. Removed from ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHStNIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1900. Faint dampstaining around the margins of several pages, not affecting text, else G. In plastic report covers. From the introduction: "The great importance which electricity has attained in many departments of human activity is so constantly evident that we have difficulty in realizing how short is the time which has been occupied in its development. The latter half of the nineteenth century must ever remain memorable, not only for the great advances in nearly all the useful arts, but for the peculiarly rapid electric progress, and the profound effect which it has had upon the lives and business of the people.".