The marketplace is flooded by gadgets loaded with bells and whistles that we absolutely “need.”  University of Texas history professor Bruce J. Hunt, whose specialty is the history of science, will introduce us to the period that saw more scientific and technological creativity since cavemen put fire to good use.  With his research focusing on the development of electrical science and technology in the 19^th century, Dr. Hunt is the author of The Maxwellians (Cornell University Press) on three men whose lives were changed by James Clerk Maxwell’s groundbreaking work on electromagnetism and the soon-to-be-published Pursuing Power and Light:  Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein (Johns Hopkins University Press). Admission is $10 for general public but free for Friends of the Neill-Cochran House Museum. Lectures often sell out, so don’t forget to RSVP.