PARVILLE, HENRI DE. - THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION OF ELECTRICITY

LÉlectricité et ses Applications. Exposition de Paris. Avec 187 Figures dans le texte.

Paris, G. Masson, 1882. Small 8vo. Orig. full decorated cloth. Gilt spine, gilt covers. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. A stamp on title-page. Frontispiece (woodcut). 536 pp. and 186 woodcut illustrations in the text (many full-page). Scattered faint brownspots.

First edition. This exposition, which took place in Paris 1881, was a great stir. The public could admire the dynamo of Zénobe Gramme, the incandescent light bulbs of Thomas Edison, the Théâtrophone, the electric tramway of Werner von Siemens, the telephone of Alexander Graham Bell, an electrical distribution network by Marcel Deprez, and an electric boat by Gustave Trouvé etc. etc.

Order-nr.: 51741