Gillian Cookson;, Colin A. Hempstead. A Victorian Scientist and Engineer: Fleeming Jenkin and the Birth of Electrical Engineering. xii + 217 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Brookfield, Vt./Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2000 [Book Review]

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