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ELECTROMAGNETISM

ELECTROMAGNETISM 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]
  • 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:
  • Essai Théorique et Expérimental sur le Galvanisme by Jean Aldini Volume I --- Volume II [Paris: Fournier Fils, An XII (1804)]
  • Course d'Électricité by H. Pellat Volume II -- Volume III [Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1901-1908]
  • 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]

• General: Advanced:
  • 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]

• 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: 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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