Chapter 4.
Points of Character.
Chapter 5.
Identity of electricities; first researches on electro-chemistry.
Chapter 6.
Laws of electro-chemical decomposition.
Chapter 7.
Origin of power in the voltaic pile.
Chapter 8.
Researches on frictional electricity: induction: conduction:
specific inductive capacity: theory of contiguous particles.
Chapter 9.
Rest needed--visit to Switzerland.
Chapter 10.
Magnetization of light.
Chapter 11.
Discovery of diamagnetism--researches on magne-crystallic action.
Chapter 12.
Magnetism of flame and gases--atmospheric magnetism.
Chapter 13.
Speculations: nature of matter: lines of force.
Chapter 14.
Unity and convertibility of natural forces: theory of the
electric current.
Chapter 15.
Summary.
Chapter 16.
Illustrations of Character.
Preface to the fifth edition.
Daily and weekly, from all parts of the world, I receive publications
bearing upon the practical applications of electricity. This great
movement, the ultimate outcome of which is not to be foreseen, had
its origin in the discoveries made by Michael Faraday, sixty-two
years ago. From these discoveries have sprung applications of the
telephone order, together with various forms of the electric
telegraph. From them have sprung the extraordinary advances made in
electrical illumination. Faraday could have had but an imperfect
notion of the expansions of which his discoveries were capable.
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