Issued in Philadelphia in 1809 as the work of two gentlemen of the city, this summary gathers what was then known of electricity and of the new science of galvanism. It runs from the electricity known to the ancients through electric fishes and the influence of electricity on plants to the experiments that followed the discovery of galvanic action.
A fascinating record of electrical science in the young United States, before Faraday transformed the field. Download the free EPUB.