A HUNDRED years ago electrical engineering as a science was in the cradle, and as a profession it was still unborn. Now, of course, it is one of the most important of the applied sciences and a profession that attracts more recruits every year.
In this series of talks Professor Cramp (who, besides b iig Professor of Electrical Engineering at Birmingham University, is a consulting engineer of many years' experience) will trace this astounding progress, beginning this evening with tho state of knowledge as it was in 1827, after the achievements of Franklin, Coulomb, Volta, and Ampère—which, in the case of the last two, had left their names inscribed in the electrical vocabulary for all time.