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CONTENTS

 Introduction

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Collection

 The Dawn of the Electrical Age
Spark Machines
Electroscopes
Leyden Jars
Electrostatic Devices
Volta Piles, etc.
 

Electricity
Sparks Invention
Perpetual Motion
The Electromagnet
Early Electric Motors
 Induction Coils
Magneto-Electric Machines
Telegraphy
Telephony
Electric Lighting
 Other Apparatus
Crookes & Geissler Tubes
Galvanometers
Quack Medical

Electric
Lighting & Power
Early History
 1880's & Experimental Lamps
Evolution of the Lamp Stem
Lamp bases of the 1890's
 Other Early Electric Lamps
Plugs and Sockets
 Dynamos and Alternators
Meters and Transformers

The Wireless Age

  Marconi Wireless
  Early Transmitters
  Early Receivers
  Wireless Telephone
  Detectors
  Spark Coils
  Spark Gaps
  Meters
  Spark keys
  Loose Couplers
  Misc. Wireless


 Rare Books

Early Tube sets
   RCA sets
  Deforest sets
  British sets
  French sets
  Others 
  Theremin


Atwater Kent Breadboards


Misc. Battery Sets


A.C. Receivers


Horn Loudspeakers


Cone Loudspeakers


Vacuum Tubes


An Early Radio Pioneer


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