From the series, The Library of Romance, this book introduces the reader to the modern concepts of electricity. The author discusses how man came to know about electricity, and how it powers the world of 1910.
Chapters
1 The Part Electricity Played 11 min 2 How We Came to Know About Electricity 9 min 3 How Batteries Were Invented 20 min 4 What is Magnetism? 15 min 5 How Magnetism is Related to Electricity 9 min 6 How We Came to Have the Telegraph 15 min 7 How We Now Send Telegrams 23 min 8 Telegraphing Across the Sea 19 min 9 Some Early Attempts at Telegraphy 11 min 10 Telegraphing Through Space 21 min 11 Electricity in Nature 16 min 12 Interesting Applications of Electricity 18 min 13 Further Applications of Electricity 23 min 14 Electricity and Speech 38 min 15 Wireless Telephony 9 min 16 Induction Coils Explained 11 min 17 Light That Does Not Affect the Eye 14 min 18 How Electricity Produces Light 19 min 19 Electricity From Mechanical Motion 15 min 20 Mechanical Motion From Electricity 16 min 21 Electric Railways, Niagara, etc 23 min 22 Electricity in the Observatory 25 min 23 Electricity and the Physician 10 min 24 Electricity and Radium 20 min 25 Electricity and Chemistry 14 min 26 Electricity in the Coal-Mine 16 min 27 Electricity as a Heating Agent 7 min 28 Electricity's Relation to Heat 13 min 29 How Electricity Aids the Conjurer 20 min 30 How We Measure Electricity 29 min 31 Some Questions Answered 11 min 32 What We Know About Electricity 16 min 33 Conclusion 15 min
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