The purpose of this work is to present the public with a concise and<br>practical book of reference, which it is believed will be appreciated in<br>this age of electricity. The science has expanded so much that the<br>limits of what may be termed strictly a dictionary of the present day<br>would a few years ago have sufficed for an encyclopedia. It follows that<br>an encyclopedia of electricity would be a work of great size. Yet a<br>dictionary with adequate definitions, and kept within the closest limits<br>by the statement of synonyms, and by the consigning of all the<br>innumerable cross-references to a concise index will be far more than a<br>mere dictionary in the ordinary sense of the term.<br>...