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.
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
The Part Electricity Played
10:58 - Chapter 2
How We Came to Know About Electricity
09:16 - Chapter 3
How Batteries Were Invented
19:44 - Chapter 4
What is Magnetism?
15:17 - Chapter 5
How Magnetism is Related to Electricity
08:42 - Chapter 6
How We Came to Have the Telegraph
15:02 - Chapter 7
How We Now Send Telegrams
22:51 - Chapter 8
Telegraphing Across the Sea
18:48 - Chapter 9
Some Early Attempts at Telegraphy
10:56 - Chapter 10
Telegraphing Through Space
21:11 - Chapter 11
Electricity in Nature
15:38 - Chapter 12
Interesting Applications of Electricity
18:13 - Chapter 13
Further Applications of Electricity
23:00 - Chapter 14
Electricity and Speech
38:08 - Chapter 15
Wireless Telephony
09:28 - Chapter 16
Induction Coils Explained
10:57 - Chapter 17
Light That Does Not Affect the Eye
13:42 - Chapter 18
How Electricity Produces Light
18:51 - Chapter 19
Electricity From Mechanical Motion
15:04 - Chapter 20
Mechanical Motion From Electricity
15:32 - Chapter 21
Electric Railways, Niagara, etc.
23:11 - Chapter 22
Electricity in the Observatory
25:28 - Chapter 23
Electricity and the Physician
10:13 - Chapter 24
Electricity and Radium
20:09 - Chapter 25
Electricity and Chemistry
13:57 - Chapter 26
Electricity in the Coal-Mine
16:03 - Chapter 27
Electricity as a Heating Agent
07:13 - Chapter 28
Electricity's Relation to Heat
13:27 - Chapter 29
How Electricity Aids the Conjurer
19:35 - Chapter 30
How We Measure Electricity
29:16 - Chapter 31
Some Questions Answered
11:03 - Chapter 32
What We Know About Electricity
16:08 - Chapter 33
Conclusion
14:54