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ON surveying the wide sea upon which the numerous and varied practical applications of electricity are launched for the subject of this evening's address, I have been puzzled to steer a course that shall avoid the dazzling shoals of theory on the one hand, and the dry hard rocks of practice on the other.
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The Nature of Electricity 1 . Nature 21, 334–338 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021334a0
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