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TWENTY-SIX years ago, at the meeting of the British Association at Sheffield, August, 1879, a lecture, on “Electricity as a Motive Power,” was delivered to some thousands of working men, and, for the first time, they realised that forks and spoons could not only be plated with the electric current, but could also be polished with a brush made to spin with the same agency.
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The Distribution of Power . Nature 72, 612–619 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072612b0
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