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Things a Boy Should Know About Electricity Second Edition

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Things a Boy Should Know About Electricity, by Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. John

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Title: Things a Boy Should Know About Electricity

Second Edition

Author: Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. John

Release Date: January 14, 2014 [eBook #44665]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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Boy holding a flaming torch

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Things A Boy Should
Know About
Electricity

BY
THOMAS M. ST. JOHN, Met. E.

Author of "Fun With Magnetism," "Fun With Electricity,"
"How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus,"
"The Study of Elementary Electricity
and Magnetism by Experiment," etc.



SECOND emblemEDITION




NEW YORK
THOMAS M. ST. JOHN
407 West 51st Street
1903

Copyright, 1900.
By Thomas M. St. John.

THINGS A BOY SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ELECTRICITY

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter Page
I. About Frictional Electricty 7
II. About Magnets and Magnetism 21
III. How Electricity is Generated by the Voltaic Cell, 32
IV. Various Voltaic Cells, 36
V. About Push-Buttons, Switches and Binding-Posts, 43
VI. Units and Apparatus for Electrical Measurements, 48
VII. Chemical Effects of the Electric Current, 58
VIII. How Electroplating and Electrotyping are Done, 60
IX. The Storage Battery, and How it Works, 63
X. How Electricity is Generated by Heat, public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@44665@[email protected]#Page_68"

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