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}f electricity over large areas. The 

 Daper was, as the author had himself 

 laid, dry; but it really recounted the 

 gigantic advances that had been made 

 n the means required for this economical 

 listribution of electricity. It was only 

 ;en years since Edison solved the ques- 

 ;ion of incandescent lamps, and only 

 jeven years ago it was found scarcely 

 possible to distribute currents over areas 

 so as to bring electric lighting to corn- 

 Dare in any way with gas. At that 

 ime a distinguished French electrician, 

 Vlr. Gaulard, showed how, by using alter- 

 late currents of high electromotive force, 

 ;o distribute electrical energy to a distance 

 3y stepping down, as it were, from high 

 pressure to low pressure. The process 

 ivas similar to that now carried out in 

 London, to distribute power by means of 

 svater under very high pressure ; also to 

 :hat adopted by the Gas Light and Coke 

 Company at Beckton, to send gas under 

 high pressure to holders in different 

 parts of London, and there distribute it 

 under low pressure. Such progress had 



