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been made in America, on the Continent, 

 and in England, that ere very long he 

 believed there would be electric lighting 

 all over the country. There was hardly 

 a town of any size that was not consider- 

 ing the subject, and that, in twelve 

 months' time, would not be on the road 

 to having electric lighting distributed 

 throughout large areas. At Deptford, 

 there was the extensive enterprise of the 

 London Electrical Supply Corporation, 

 and the enormous machines of Ferranti 

 were being constructed, intended to pro- 

 duce an electric pressure equal to 10,0Q0 

 volts, representing an electromotive force 

 something like that of a small lightning 

 flash. It would be driven through a 

 very small conductor up to the neighbor- 

 hood of the Monument, and would there 

 step down to a lower pressure, and so be 

 distributed throughout the city of Lon- 

 don over a very large area. One was the 

 proper rate at which the alternating cur- 

 rents should be transmitted. The prac- 

 tice had hitherto been to commence at a 

 very high rate. Mr. Ferranti began with 



