The Story of Electricity
| By: | John Munro |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Print ISBN: | 9781508935490.0 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781633550735 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2014 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The purpose of this little book is to present the essential facts of electrical science in a popular and interesting way, as befits the scheme of the series to which it belongs. Electrical phenomena have been observed since the first man viewed one of the most spectacular and magnificent of them all in the thunderstorm, but the services of electricity which we enjoy are the product solely of scientific achievement in the nineteenth century. It is to these services that the main part of the following discussion is devoted.