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  • Electricity is but yet a new agent for the arts and manufactures, and, doubtless, generations unborn will regard with interest this century, in which it has been first applied to the wants of mankind.

    Alfred SMEE (F.R.S., Surgeon to the Bank of England.) (1851). “Elements of Electro-Metallurgy, or the art of working in metals by the galvanic fluid”, p.8