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the time when the first edition of this little volume issued from the press. Electric Lighting by Incandescence, had barely got beyond the stage of a laboratory experiment, and the possibility of lighting large districts from a central station, as successfully as with gas, was doubted by men who now stand high in electrical circles. So great indeed has been the change in this art since that time, that we are rapidly becoming possessed of the indifference consequent upon familiarity, and take the introduction of the electric light into our factories, business places, and dwellings, as a matter of course.

There is however one phase of this