Flame, Electricity and the Camera: Man's Progress from the First Kindling of Fire to the Wireless Telegraph and the Photography of Color (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Flame, Electricity and the Camera: Man's Progress From the First Kindling of Fire to the Wireless Telegraph and the Photography of Color

This book is an attempt briefly to recite the chief uses of fire, electricity, and photography, bringing the narrative Of discovery and invention to the close of 1899. In cover ing SO much ground it has been necessary to choose from a vast array of facts such of them as are fairly representa tive, laying stress upon those whose proven importance or high promise gives them most prominence in the public mind. Passing to the laws which underlie invention and discovery, this book endeavours to answer the question, Why has the nineteenth century added more to science than all preceding time? It will be found that the latest achievements Of man illuminate his path of progress in remarkable fashion, and enable us to discern the promise of the wireless telegraph in the first blaze kindled by a savage, to understand how photography in natural colours has succeeded to the first rude contours drawn by the hand of man. Throughout the volume it is sought, also, to show how profoundly recent accessions to knowledge are transforming the foundations of social, political, and eco nomic life, while, at the same time, they are correcting and broadening the deepest convictions of the human soul.

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