Charles F. Brush: A Pioneer of Electric Lights [History]

摘要

The author of an article or a book about a single person is in danger of focusing heavily on that person's accomplishments and neglecting the broader picture so that the result is a hagiography. I will try not to fall into that trap. I start out by quoting, in a condensed version, from Harold C. Passer's superbly researched The Electrical Manufacturers: 1875-1900, published in 1953