Popular electricity in plain English
Popular Electricity in Plain English is a 1908 Chicago manual published by the Popular Engineering Publishing Company for general readers curious about electrical work. The pictures show a machine shop with a hand-operated press, a man fishing beside a riverbank with a float and a bank marked as a fishing spot, a man in a cap and suit holding wiring apparatus, and a formal portrait of a moustached man in a suit and tie. A designer could draw on the sober black-and-white halftone look, the shop machinery detail, and the earnest early-twentieth-century portrait style.
