Why Electricity Produces All The Phenomena Of Nature

Author : Frederick Collier Bakewell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330094419
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (944 download)

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Download or read book Electric Science written by Frederick Collier Bakewell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Electric Science: Its History, Phenomena, and Applications The attention that electricity now commands, by its intimate relations with the other physical sciences and by the important objects to which it is applied, makes it particularly desirable that the student of natural philosophy should have the means of attaining, in a compendious form, a knowledge of the progress of electric science to the present day, and of comprehending its varied phenomena, and the applications of which it has been found capable. With this object in view, the author has endeavoured to set forth clearly, yet concisely, the prominent points in the history of electricity, and to notice and explain all those phenomena which indicate any special attribute of that peculiar force. In attempting to comprise all that is important to be known of the history, the phenomena, and the applications of electricity within a single volume, there is considerable risk of producing a mere chronological record and an explanatory catalogue rather than an interesting treatise. When, indeed, it is considered that Priestley's History of Electricity occupies a thick quarto volume - though written before the most important sources of electric force had been revealed by Galvani and Volta, by Œrsted, Seebeck, Faraday, and Armstrong - it might be supposed that a history which includes those discoveries, and is contained within forty pages, must he only a barren sketch. To afford space for circumstantial illustration and explanatory remarks, attention has been concentrated on the characteristic facts, by the adoption of which course it is hoped that the historical notice of the advancement of electric science will be found interesting as well as instructive. As a mere statement of effects would have proved unsatisfactory without an explanation of the causes that produce them, such explanations have been given as appeared to the author to afford the clearest insight into the nature of electrical action. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.