Makers of electricity
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 1909
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: I. Peregrinus and Columbus 1; title: II. Norman and Gilbert 29; title: III. Franklin and some contemporaries  68; title: IV. Galvani, discoverer of animal electricity 133; title: V. Volta, the founder of electrical science 162; title: VI. Coulomb 188; title: VII. Hans Christian Oersted 205; title: VIII. Andr6 Marie Ampere 232; title: IX. Ohm, the founder of mathematical electricity 258; title: X. Faraday 299; title: XI. Clerk Maxwell 334; title: XII. Lord Kelvin 361; title: ILLUSTRATIONS; title: The double pivoted needle of Petrus Peregrinus 19; title: First pivoted compass, Peregrinus, 1269 17; title: Magnetic Declination at New York 21; title: “ “  San Francisco  21; title: “ “ in London, in 1850 and 1907 23; title: First dip-circle, invented by Norman in 1676  29; title: Norman's illustration of magnetic dip  31; title: Gilbert's orb of virtue, 1600 32; title: Behavior of compass-needle on a terrella or spherical lodestone 44; title: Gilbert’s “versorium" or electroscope 69; title: Gordon’s electric chimes, 1745 75; title: Modern form of Leyden jar, with movable coatings 87; title: Three coated panes in series 89; title: Panes in parallel 89; title: “ jars in parallel 90; title: “ jars in cascade 90; title: Discharge by alternate contacts 94; title: Tassel of long threads or light strips of paper 101; title: Procopius Divisch (1696-1765) 108; title: The Divisch lightning conductor (1754) 111; title: Set of pointed rods 112; title: Galvani (portrait) opposite page 133; title: Volta “ “ “ 162; title: Oersted “ “ “ 205; title: Ampere “ “ “ 232; title: Faraday “ “ “ 299; title: Clerk Maxwell (portrait) opposite page 334; title: Lord Kelvin “ “ “ 361