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"HE INTELLECTUAL RISE IN ELECTRIC I 



TV. A Histoiy. By Park Benjamin, Ph.D., LL.B., Member 

 of the American Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Associate 

 Member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engi- 

 neers, etc. With Three Portraits. 8vo. Cloth, $4.00. 



" Mr. Benjamin surely has produceil a book tliat will find interested readers through- 

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 to know of its discovery and development will be awakened, and the desire can be satis- 

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 boo':." — New York Times. 



"Mr. Benjamin has peiformed his self imposed task in an admirable fashion, and 

 has produced a work which has a distinct historical value." — Brooklyn Eagle. 



" A work that takes a high rank as a history dealing with an abstruse topic, but 

 bestowing on it a wealth of vital interest, pouring over it streams of needed light, and 

 touching all with a graceful literary skill that leaves nothing to be desired." — New York 

 Mail and Express. 



" A very comprehensive and thorough study of electricity in its infancy. He pre- 

 sents his matter clearly and in an interesting form. His volume is one of especial value 

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" The work is distinctly a history. No technical preparation is required to read it, 

 and it is free from all mathematical or other discussions which might involve difficulty. 

 The style is, in the main, excellent." — Science. 



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 for reference — historic, not scientific reference — and which will prove instructive reading 

 to the thoughtful of all classes." — New York Herald. 



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 reading public. ... A volume which will appeal to an ever-incrensiiig body of people ; 

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"One of the best works devoted to the development of the great force of modern 

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" The author has written a plain and simple history of the beginnings of electricnl 

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 strations. ' ' — Philadelpliia Press. 



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