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What is electricity? / by John Trowbridge.
Gale Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology and Medicine, 1780-1925 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trowbridge, John, 1843-1923.
- Series:
- International scientific series (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 75.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.
- The international scientific series ; v. 75
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electricity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (4, [ii]-vii, 315, [6] p.) : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : D. Appleton & Co., 1896.
- Contents:
- The standpoint of physicists
- Measurements in electricity
- Magnetism
- The electric current
- Flow of electricity in the earth
- The voltaic cell
- The galvanometer
- The dynamo machine
- Sources of electric power
- Transformations of energy
- Alternating currents
- Transmission of power by electricity
- Self-induction
- The Leyden jar
- Step-up transformers
- Lightning
- Wave motion
- Electric waves
- The electro-magnetic theory of light and the ether
- The x rays
- The sun
- What is electricity?.
- Notes:
- Series title also at head of t.-p.
- Includes index.
- Publisher's advertising: 4 p., 1st count; [6] p., 4th count.
- Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.
- OCLC:
- 1091306975
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