Abstract
THE author of this text-book tells us with great truth that at the present time there are two sciences of electricity—one that of the lecture-room and the popular treatise; the other that of the testing-office and the engineer's specification. The first deals with sparks and shocks which are seen and felt, the other with currents and resistances to be measured and calculated. The popularity of the one science depends on human curiosity; the diffusion of the other is a result of the demand for electricians as telegraph engineers.
Electricity and Magnetism.
ByFleeming Jenkin, Professor of Engineering in the University of Edinburgh. (London: Longmans and Co., 1873.)
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Longmans' Text-Books of Science . Nature 8, 42–43 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008042a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/008042a0
