Genre:

Regular Feature, Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Bright 1898

Subjects:

Telegraphy, Electricity, Time, Progress, History of Science

    Notes that 'Last month we had two illustrations which strikingly indicated the transformation which the electric cable has brought about in our everyday life. The scene of the Spanish-American war is several thousand miles distant from our shores, but day by day we have followed its course with almost as full a knowledge of the events of the previous twenty-four hours as if we had been on the spot. The world-wide sorrow which found expression on the death of Mr. Gladstone was one of the most impressive events of modern times. But it was a tribute to the power of electricity no less than to the personality of the dead statesman' (626).