Lectures on Electricity: Comprising Galvanism, Magnetism, Electro-Magnetism, Magneto- And Thermo-Electricity

by Henry Minchin Noad

Book Overview

During the early nineteenth-century craze for conducting kite experiments in lightning, deaths were not unheard of. Electrical physicists, meanwhile, were often shocked badly enough to collapse in the course of their work. However, the perils of electricity did not deter its proponents. Published in 1844, this enlarged collection of lectures by Henry Minchin Noad (1815-77) had proven immensely popular in earlier incarnations, eventually running to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108052169
• ISBN13: 9781108052160
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 474 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"