Practical Electricity: a Laboratory and Lecture Course for First Year Students of Electrical Engineering, based on the International Definitions of the Electrical Units

Abstract

THAT the progress of electricity during the last decade has been great appears in many ways; but none shows this progress more strikingly than a comparison of a new and up-to-date book on practical electricity with the work as it originally appeared ten years ago. Prof. Ayrton's book was well-known to all laboratory students of electricity; it contained in moderate compass a vast amount of detailed information of great value, and it had marched well with the times. But the decision of the author to recast his matter, and to issue the book in an entirely rewritten and rearranged form, was none the less a wise one. He has now freer scope to put things in their newer relations and lights, to introduce new matter, and to emphasise those points and topics which still further increased experience and the trend of applications show ought to be more insisted on, and ought to bulk more largely, in a thoroughly modern treatment of the subject.

Practical Electricity: a Laboratory and Lecture Course for First Year Students of Electrical Engineering, based on the International Definitions of the Electrical Units.

Completely rewritten by W. E. Ayrton. Vol. i. Current, Pressure, Resistance, Energy, Power, and Cells. Pp. xviii + 643, with 247 illustrations. (London: Cassell and Co., Ltd., 1896.)