Science in 1900 London: The Institution of Electrical Engineers

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Arthur H. Beavan continued his survey of science in Imperial London, published in 1901, with this discussion of the The Institution of Electrical Engineers:

Amongst other important Societies is the Institution of Electrical Engineers, who for the last twelve years have met together at dinner (last year at the Cecil Hotel), when such eminent men as Lord Kelvin, Sir J. N. Lockyer, Sir John Wolf Barry, Sir William MacCormac, Bart., are generally present.

What electricity is to the world in the new century, is best stated in Lord Kelvin's own words. "In most departments of applied engineering," he says, "we are the heirs of the ages, but with regard to electricity the case is different.

Other branches of industry have taken years to grow, but no gradual improvements from ancient knowledge have led up to electrical engineering. That was part of the history of the nineteenth century, and principally of the latter part of it.

Nothing in the whole of science is more wonderful than the rise of electrical knowledge and its useful application in our own time."

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