From General History, E. H. Carter and Charles Kay Ogden 1938 . . . After Faraday's work on the electric current (that is, from about 1830), a new sort of power came in to take the place of steam. The telegraph, the telephone, and the underseas telegraph (the cable) were made possible. With the invention of a new sort of engine—the ' internal combustion engine '—came the automobile and the airplane. A young Italian, Marconi, made radio a working thing (1893), and the radio-telegraph were at hand. Today it wold be very hard to make a list of all the uses of electric power in the work and pleasures of man. The development of machine processes by which goods may be produced on a great scale has given us the cheap automobile ; the first great business men to see what might be done in this direction in the automobile industry were Mr. Henry Ford in America and Lord Nuffield in England.

The good work of science is probably best seen in the great discoveries for overcoming pain and disease, and even for making or time on earth longer. Doctor Simpson (1847) was the first man to make use of chloroform for making us unconscious of pain. Lister made operations safe by his discovery that certain chemicals (' antiseptics ') kept wounds from getting poisoned (1840) ; and Pasteur, by his tests with bacteria, made clear the causes of a great number of animal and plant diseases.

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GENERAL HISTORY IN OUTLINE AND STORY
London etc. : Nelson 1939