Forty Years of Electrical Progress: The Story of the G.E.C.

'The progress of the electrical industry as a whole is itself a pageant of vivid events,' says Mr. Adam Gowans Whyte, "but I know no single phase of it, apart from the succession of remarkable inventions, more attractive and more deserving of intimate study than the manner in which, in the earliest infancy of electricity, a conception was formed of an ideal electrical industrial organization which was eventually realized on an almost world-wide scale by the General Electric Company, Limited." In this fascinating work the author tells the story of the rise and progress of this great enterprise from the humblest beginnings under the guidance of the founder and chairman, Sir Hugo Hirst, Bart. There is no more remarkable or encouraging chapter in the annals of British industry.