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![[picture: Front cover from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-335x500.jpg "[picture: Front cover from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers]")
Words and pictures from “Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers” by Sydney F. Walker, undated but approx. 1890 (a bookseller lists an 1892 edition). Lots of steampunk potential here!
Title: Electric Lighting for Ships
Published by: Whittaker & Co.
City: London
Date: 1892
Total items: 13
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Fig. 27.---Switchboard.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/wm/big/027-switchboard-q75-291x200.jpg "[picture: Fig. 27.---Switchboard.]")
![[picture: Fig. 61.---Guarded Portable Lamp Fitting.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/wm/big/061-Guarded-Portable-Lamp-Fitting-q75-82x200.jpg "[picture: Fig. 61.---Guarded Portable Lamp Fitting.]")
Fig. 61.—Guarded Portable Lamp Fitting.
“Fig. 61. shows a portable guarded fitting intended for portable lamps, for holds, etc. A flexible cable is attached to it and a switch placed at the point of conection.” (p. 152) [more...] [$]
![[picture: Fig. 73.---English Shopper Switch]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/wm/big/073-english-chopper-switch-q75-214x200.jpg "[picture: Fig. 73.---English Shopper Switch]")
Fig. 73.—English Shopper Switch
Another design of electrical switch from 1892. [$]
![[picture: Title Page from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/wm/big/000-Title-Page-q75-133x200.jpg "[picture: Title Page from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers]")
Title Page from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers
Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers
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How to light a ship by the electric light / and how to keep the apparatus / in order [more...] [$]
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![[picture: Fig. 70.---Tumbler Switch.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/wm/big/070-Tumbler-Switch-q75-219x200.jpg "[picture: Fig. 70.---Tumbler Switch.]")
