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Electricity for Boys

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A practical manual aimed at young readers that explains electrical principles and hands-on construction of apparatus. It opens with a brief historical overview, then recommends workshop layout, tools, and safety precautions before guiding readers through building magnets, coils, armatures, batteries, and simple dynamos. It presents methods for detecting and measuring current, explains units such as volts, amperes, ohms, and watts, and describes common experiments and construction techniques with many illustrations. Emphasis is on progressive, step-by-step instruction to develop practical understanding, while warning that some demonstrations can be hazardous.

  • Depression, 15, 140.
  • Detecting current, 49.
  • Detector, 49, 52, 54, 105.
  • Devices, measuring, 27.
  • Diagrams, 46, 48, 79, 89.
  • Diagrammatically, 81.
  • Diamagnetic, 19.
  • Diametrically, 114.
  • Diaphragm, 112, 113, 116, 120, 122.
  • Diamonds, 186.
  • Diluted, 86.
  • Direct current, 38, 140.
  • Direction of current, 50.
  • Direction of flow, 98.
  • Discharge, 172.
  • Disintegrate, 132.
  • Disk, 43.
  • Dissimilar, 37.
  • Disturbance, 176.
  • Dividers, 14.
  • Divisibility, 168.
  • Dot, 96, 97.
  • Dot and dash, 96.
  • Double click, 95.
  • Double line, 65.
  • Double-pole switch, 65.
  • Double-throw switch, 117.
  • Drawing, 20.
  • Drill, ratchet, 13.
  • Drops, 81.
  • Ductile, 186.
  • Duplex wire, 115.

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  • Engine energy, 170, 180.
  • Equidistant, 127.
  • Ether, 104.
  • Example, 61.
  • Excited, 47.
  • Extension plate, 103.
  • Exterior, 3.
  • Exterior magnetic, 27.
  • External, 37.
  • External circuit, 153.
  • External current, 50.
  • External resistance, 37.

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  • Friction, 32.
  • Frictional, 6, 7, 29.
  • Fuse, 169.

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  • Heart-shaped switch, 77.
  • Heater, 136.
  • Heating, 13, 38.
  • Hertzian rays, 170.
  • Hertzian wave, 184.
  • High tension, 38, 102, 184.
  • High tension apparatus, 98.
  • High tension coils, 103.
  • High voltage, 158.
  • Horizontal bar, 46.
  • Horseshoe magnet, 22, 24, 175.
  • Hydrate of aluminum, 129.
  • Hydrogen, 35, 123, 125, 128.

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