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Science and Inventions of Benjamin Franklin
FRANKLIN IDENTIFIES LIGHTNING WITH ELECTRICITY [From Franklin's Works, edited in ten volumes by John Bigelow, Vol. I, pages 276-281, copyright by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.] Dr. Stuber, the author...
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Edison and His Inventions – the Telephone, Motograph and Microphone
INVENTIONS OF THOMAS EDISON: THE TELEPHONE, MONOGRAPH, AND MICROPHONE A VERY great invention has its own dramatic history. Episodes full of human interest attend its development. The periods of weary...
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Edison and His Life
THOMAS ALVA EDISON was born at Milan Ohio, February 11, 1847. The State that rivals Virginia as a “Mother of Presidents” has evidently other titles to distinction of the same nature. For picturesque...
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FARADAY’S DISCOVERIES LEADING UP TO THE ELECTRIC DYNAMO AND MOTOR
Michael Faraday was for many years Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution, London, where his researches did more to subdue electricity to the service of man than those of any other...
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PROFESSOR JOSEPH HENRY’S INVENTION OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH
In 1855 the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., at the instance of their secretary, Professor Joseph Henry, took evidence with respect to his claims as inventor of the electric...
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THE FIRST ATLANTIC CABLES
Electric telegraphy on land – the First Atlantic Cable George Iles [From “Flame, Electricity and the Camera,” copyright Doubleday, Page & Co., New York.] Electric telegraphy on land has put a vast...
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Hertz – clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, born in Hamburg on February 22, 1857, was the first person to prove electromagnetic waves exist (hence the wavelength doodle) and that electricity can be...
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