Scribner’s Magazine

In these days the layman is apt to protect himself in a cloak of blasé acquiescence from the ever-fresh demands upon his mental powers made by mechanical wonders. But the most fatigued and agnostic...

Webmaster note: Unrelated content has been omitted from this article. The Era of Electricity What wonder it evoked at the Exposition of 1876, that the Corliss engine with its complex system of belting...