electric-lighting

No man can dictate a 20-word message intelligibly through it at any hour of the day without devoting a weeks worth of time to it, and there is no night-service whatsoever since electric-lighting was introduced.

Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us Emily Yellin 2009

His pride in the seat of the local government spared us no detail of the whole electric-lighting system, or even the hose-bibs for guarding the edifice against fire, let alone every picture and photograph on the wall of every chamber of greater or less dignity, with every notable table and chair.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

Anon, electric-lighting and other modern conveniences are added, thereby making life more tolerable in a fierce climate of heat and cold, of fiercer winds and blinding dust.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

A large municipal electric-lighting plant was completed in 1908.

The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado Logan Marshall

Under 50 lbs. of steam it develops sufficient power to run a small electric-lighting installation, or to do other useful work on a moderate scale.

Things To Make Archibald Williams

These excited speculators do not appear to be aware of the fact that electric-lighting is older than gas-lighting; that Sir Humphry Davy exhibited the electric light in Albemarle Street, while London was still dimly lighted by oil-lamps, and long before gas-lighting was attempted anywhere.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various

This practice of running overhead wires has great disadvantages when the wires are used for electric-lighting purposes as well as for ordinary telephone or telegraph purposes.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 Various

The progress of electric-lighting has been a series of spasmodic leaps, backward as well as forward.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various

While it is in the highest degree desirable that water-works, gas, and electric-lighting plants, street railways, and the other municipal enterprises, discussed in Chapter V., should be _owned_ by the municipality, their operation, in cases where the employment of considerable labor and the carrying on of intricate business and mechanical operations is involved, should in general be entrusted to private companies.

Monopolies and the People Charles Whiting Baker

The leading fallacy which is urging the electro-maniacs of the present time to their ruinous investments is the idea that electro-motors are novelties, and that electric-lighting is in its infancy; while gas-lighting is regarded as an old, or mature middle-aged business, and therefore we are to expect a marvelous growth of the infant and no further progress of the adult.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various