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THE progress of electrical discovery and invention, and especially of electric lighting, telegraphy, and telephony, in the last fifty years is the theme on which the Editor of NATURE has asked me to make a short contribution to this jubilee issue. The chief difficulty, however, is in selecting from the enormous stores of accumulated knowledge the topics most worthy of notice in a space all too brief for any adequate treatment.
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FLEMING, J. Progress of Electrical Invention. Nature 104, 239–241 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104239a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/104239a0
