Most materials we use in everyday life expand when they are heated. Metals, plastics, and many other materials grow slightly ...

Demonstrates how electricity can be produced from magnets through various experiments. It explains that electric currents can create magnetic effects, forming electromagnets that only work while ...

vol. I. Preliminary: On the measurement of quantities. pt. I. Electrostatics. pt. II. Electrokinematics -- vol. II, pt. III. Magnetism. pt. IV. Electromagnetism siris ...

"London, Macmillan and Co., publishers to the University of Oxford"--Verso of half title. Errata in variants: either printed leaf (in v. 1 & 2) or a slip (in v. 1 ...