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ELECTRICITY & MAGNETISM

ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM in the Long Nineteenth Century.

Most material in Net Advance Retro antedates 1920. It may be obsolete or incorrect. For more recent technical information, please consult the electromagnetism page at the regular Net Advance site.

WARNING:
Experimental projects described in old scientific papers are frequently unsafe. This is especially true of projects described as "suitable for amateurs" or "suitable for children"; such projects are rarely suitable for children or amateurs in the Twenty-first Century.

• General: Introductory:
  • Lectures on Electricity by Henry M. Noad [London: Geo. Knight, 1844]
  • The Student's Text-book of Electricity by Henry M. Noad [London: Lockwood, 1867]
  • A Popular Exposition of Electricity by Rev. Martin S. Brennan [New York: Appleton, 1885]
  • Electricity and Magnetism by Fleeming Jenkin [London: Longmans, Green, 1887]
  • Short Lectures to Electrical Artisans, being a Course of Experimental Lectures Delivered to a Practical Audience by Sir John Ambrose Fleming [London: E. & F. N. Spon, 1892]
  • A Short University Course in Electricity, Sound, and Light by R. A. Millikan and John Mills [Boston: Ginn, 1908]
  • Elements of Applied Electricity by H. H. Bliss [San Francisco: Journal of Electricity Publishing, 1920]

• General:
  • Experiments and observations on electricity by Benjamin Franklin [London: E. Cave, 1751].
  • Electricity & Magnetism by Robert Leycester [ca. 1800]. Handwritten.
  • Essai Théorique et Expérimental sur le Galvanisme by Jean Aldini Volume I --- Volume II [Paris: Fournier Fils, An XII (1804)]
  • Experimental Researches in Electricity by Michael Faraday
    1. Volume I [1831--1838]
    2. Volume II [1838--1843]
    3. Volume III [1846--1852]
  • Experimental Researches in Electricity by Michael Faraday (abridged) [London: Dent, 1869]
  • A History of Electricity from Antiquity to the Days of Benjamin Franklin by Park Benjamin [New York: Wiley, 1898]
  • Course d'Électricité by H. Pellat Volume II -- Volume III [Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1901-1908]
  • Makers of Electricity by Bro. Potamian (O'Reilly) and James J. Walsh [New York: Fordham, 1909]
  • Elementary Magnetism and Electricity by Cyril Methodius Jansky [New York: McGraw Hill, 1914]. With numerous experiments.
  • A Text-Book of Physics, Volume IVa: Electricity and Magnetism, Parts I and II by J. H. Poynting and Sir J. J. Thomson [London: Griffin, 1914]
  • The Papers of Thomas Edison [Rutgers, 2008].

• General: Advanced:
  • A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell Volume I --- Volume II [Oxford: Clarendon, 1873]
  • An Elementary Treatise on Electricity by James Clerk Maxwell [Oxford: Clarendon, 1881]
  • History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity by E. T. Whittaker [London: Longmans, Green, 1910].
  • Einführung in die Theorie der Elekrizität und des Magnetismus by Max Planck [Leipzig: Hirzel, 1922]

• General: EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS:
  • Instruments for Natural Philosophy: Apparatus Made by Daniel Davis, Jr. [in the 1840s] by Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr. [Modern photographs of antique instruments.]
  • Instruments for Natural Philosophy: Electricity by Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr. [Modern photographs of antique instruments.]

  • A Handbook for the Electrical Laboratory and Testing Room by Sir John Ambrose Fleming Volume I --- Volume II [London: The Electrician, no date, before 1905]
  • Electrical Meters by Cyril Methodius Jansky [New York: McGraw-Hill, 1917]

• General: STUDENT LABORATORY MANUALS:
  • Electrical Laboratory Notes and Forms by Sir John Ambrose Fleming [London: The Electrician, no date, before 1895]

• Aspects: ÆTHER; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ELECTRONS; ELECTROSTATICS; RADIO; TELEGRAPHY; TELEPHONY;

• Aspects: BIO-ELECTRICITY:
  • Essai Théorique et Expérimental sur le Galvanisme by Jean Aldini Volume I --- Volume II [Paris: Fournier Fils, An XII (1804)]

• Aspects: CABLES:
  • The Propagation of Electric Currents in Telephone and Telegraph Conductors by Sir John Ambrose Fleming [New York: Van Nostrand, 1911]

• Aspects: CIRCUITS:
  • Instruments for Natural Philosophy: Electrical Measurements by Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr. [Modern photographs of antique instruments.]

  Aspects: CONDUCTION and CURRENT:

  • On the Flow of Electricity in Conducting Surfaces by Wm. Robertson Smith [Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 7, 79 (1870)] Attempts to determine lines of flow from sources and sinks placed on a conducting surface.
  • The Recent Development of Physical Science by W. C. D. Whetham [Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1904]

• Aspects: ELECTRIC ARC:
  • The Hissing of the Electric Arc by Hertha Ayrton [J. Proc. Inst. Elec. Eng. 28, 400 (1899)]
  • The Mechanism of the Electric Arc by Hertha Ayrton [R. S. L. Proc. 68, 410 (1901)]
  • The Mechanism of the Electric Arc [a much longer version] by Hertha Ayrton [Phil. Trans. R. S. L. 199, 299 (1901)]
  • The Electric Arc by Hertha Ayrton [London: The Electrician, 1902]

• Aspects: ELECTRICAL-POWER ENGINEERING:
  • Electrical Distribution of Heat, Light and Power, with Partial List of Deaths from Electrical Lighting Apparatus, and Address by John Murray Mitchell, Counselor at Law, on Legislative Control of Dangerous Electrical Currents by Harold P. Brown [New York: Pratt, 1889]
  • The Alternate Current Transformer in Theory and Practice by Sir John Ambrose Fleming Volume I [London: The Electrician, 1894]
  • Light, Heat and Power in Buildings by Alton D. Adams [New York: Comstock, 1901]

• Aspects: INDUCTORS:
  • The Inductorium, or Induction Coil by Henry M. Noad [London: Churchill, 1848]
  • The Improved Induction Coil by Henry M. Noad [London: Wm. Ladd, 1861]
  • The Alternate Current Transformer in Theory and Practice by Sir John Ambrose Fleming Volume I [London: The Electrician, 1894]

• Aspects: LAMPS:
  • Electric Lamps and Electric Lighting by Sir John Ambrose Fleming [London: The Electrician, 1894]

• Aspects: MAGNETISM:
  • Instruments for Natural Philosophy: Apparatus Made by Daniel Davis, Jr. [in the 1840s] by Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr. [Modern photographs of antique instruments.]

• Aspects: MOTORS:
  • Instruments for Natural Philosophy: Electric Motors by Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr. [Modern photographs of antique motors.]

• Aspects: PROPULSION:
  • Telpherage by Fleeming Jenkin [1884/05]

• Aspects: TESLA COILS:
  • Über induktive Erregung zweier elektrischer Schwingungskreise mit Anwendung auf Perioden- und Dämpfungsmessung, Teslatransformatoren und drahtlose Telegraphie by Paul Drude. [Annalen der Physik 13, 512 (1904)]
    • Partial translation of an article by Paul Drude in 1904 by A. J. Sederberg and B. H. McGuyer [2013/03]

• Aspects: VALVES (VACUUM TUBES):
  • The Thermionic Valve and its Developments in Radiotelegraphy and Telephony by Sir John Ambrose Fleming [London: Wireless, 1919]

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