Electricity for Boys
James Slough Zerbe's practical introduction to electricity for young experimenters, written when the subject was still new enough to feel like a marvel. It opens with the history — Thales of Miletus and his rubbed amber, the electric torpedo fish known to the ancients, Gilbert, Boyle and Newton, and the Leyden jar of 1740 that first let anyone bottle a charge — and goes on from frictional electricity to the apparatus a boy can build and the experiments he can run with it. The tone throughout is that electricity, light, heat and magnetism are one thing differing only in its modes of motion.
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