Flame, Electricity and the Camera: Man's Progress from the First Kindling of Fire to the Wireless Telegraph and the Photography of ColorDoubleday & McClure Company, 1904 - 398 pages This work examines the chief uses of fire, electricity, and photography and other discoveries and inventions at the end of 1899. |
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