Excerpt from Electric Lamps and Electric Lighting: A Course Delivered at Lectures on Electric Illumination Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain

The following pages are a transcript, with some additions, of a course of Four Lectures on "Electric Illumination, " delivered by the Author to afternoon audiences at the Royal Institution, London. They are, however, in no sense presented as an adequate treatment of a subject which has long since outgrown the limits of a lecture, or even of a course of lectures. The original aim was merely to offer to a general audience such non-technical explanations of the physical effects and problems concerned in the modern applications of electricity for illuminating purposes as might serve to further an intelligent interest in the subject, and perhaps pave the way for a more serious study of it.

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