Life: 1818 - 1877
Birthday: 1818
Death: 1877
Electricity is but yet a new agent for the arts and manufactures, and, doubtless, generations unborn will regard with interest this century, in which it has been first applied to the wants of mankind.
source: Alfred SMEE (F.R.S., Surgeon to the Bank of England.) (1851). “Elements of Electro-Metallurgy, or the art of working in metals by the galvanic fluid”, p.8
topic: Art, Science, Generations, New Age