明治初期の電気産業と職工

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This report shows the actual circumstance of the electrical industry in the Early Meiji era by listing up over 900 electrical workers and their occupations from 1868 to 1887, as a part of the research project "Electrical Works and their workers in the Edo and Early Meiji Period". The industry of electrical lightings had been still under dawn in that period. Consequently major electrical industries in this age were telegraph, electrical plating, electrical casting, performance of electrical show, and were works of cable, small devices such as a calling bell, primitive power machines, apparatuses of electrical therapy and physical instruments. Most of works were small owner-shops except for the machine works in the Telegraph Office of the Ministry of Industry, the Tanaka Seizo jyo (machine factory) and the Miyoshi Denki (electric works). This report suggests the existence of many inconspicuous people who played a part in popularization for the electrical technolocv in Japan.
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