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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: Front cover from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-q75-134x200.jpg "[picture: Front cover from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers]")
Front cover from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers
A dark red cover with an illustration of a battleship in black; in gold, a beam of light from the ship’s mast illuminates a smaller, distant, floating ship or submarine. [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Fig. 17.---Showing Old Type of Gramme Continuous Current Dynamo.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/wm/big/017-Old-Type-Of-Gramme-Continuous-Current-Dynamo-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: Fig. 17.---Showing Old Type of Gramme Continuous Current Dynamo.]")
Fig. 17.—Showing Old Type of Gramme Continuous Current Dynamo.
Fig. 17 shows the early type of Gramme machine, some of which may still be seen doing good work. (p. 64)
[$]![[picture: Fig. 62.---Reading-Table Lamp.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/wm/big/062-Reading-Table-Lamp-q75-91x200.jpg "[picture: Fig. 62.---Reading-Table Lamp.]")
“Fig. 62 shows a reading-table lamp, with silk shade. The lamp is fed by a flexible cord.” (p. 152) [$]
![[picture: Title Page from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/wm/big/000-Title-Page-q75-133x200.jpg "[picture: Title Page from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers]")
Title Page from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers
Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers
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How to light a ship by the electric light / and how to keep the apparatus / in order [more...] [$]
![[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...] [$]
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