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The Study of Elementary Electricity and Magnetism by Experiment / Containing Two Hundred Experiments Performed with Simple, Home-made Apparatus

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The work presents two hundred hands-on experiments that teach elementary magnetism, static electricity, and current electricity using simple, inexpensive, or home-made apparatus. Material is organized into parts that examine properties of iron and magnets, induced magnetism and magnetic fields, electrification, insulators and conductors, charging and discharging, and the behavior of currents. Each experiment includes step-by-step instructions, explanatory discussion of underlying principles, and suggestions for constructing apparatus when commercial pieces are unnecessary. Students are advised to perform experiments in sequence and to verify observations, with practical notes and problems aimed at amateurs and classroom use.

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The Study of Elementary Electricity
and Magnetism by Experiment

Containing
TWO HUNDRED EXPERIMENTS
PERFORMED WITH
SIMPLE, HOME-MADE APPARATUS

BY
THOMAS M. ST. JOHN, Met. E.
Author of "Fun With Magnetism," "Fun With Electricity," "How
Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus," Etc.

NEW YORK
STHOMAS M. ST. JOHN
407 West 51st Street
1900

Copyright, 1900,
By Thomas M. St. John.


To the Student.

This book is designed as a text-book for amateurs, students, and others who wish to take up a systematic course of elementary electrical experiments at home or in school.

The student is advised to begin at the beginning, to perform the experiments in the order given, and to understand each step before proceeding. Certain principles and explanations necessarily precede the practical and perhaps more interesting applications of those principles.

In selecting the apparatus for the experiments in this book, the author has kept constantly in mind the fact that the average student will not buy the expensive pieces usually described in text-books.

The two hundred experiments given can be performed with simple, inexpensive apparatus; in fact, the student should make at least a part of his own apparatus.

For the benefit of those who wish to make their own apparatus, the author has given, throughout the work, explanations that will aid in the construction of certain pieces especially adapted to these experiments. For those who have the author's "How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus," constant references have been made to it as the "Apparatus Book," as this contains full details for making almost all kinds of simple apparatus needed in "The Study of Elementary Electricity and Magnetism by Experiment."

THOMAS M. ST. JOHN.

New York, April, 1900.

The Study of Elementary Electricity and
Magnetism by Experiment

Part I—Magnetism

Part II—Static Electricity

Part III—Current Electricity

The Study of Elementary Electricity and Magnetism by Experiment.