The Boy Electrician
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About this eBook
- Credits
- Produced by James Simmons
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TK: Technology: Electrical, Electronics and Nuclear engineering
- Subject
- Electrical engineering -- Juvenile literature
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 63207
- Release Date
- September 15, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.THE BOY ELECTRICIAN — INTRODUCTION — CHAPTER I MAGNETS AND MAGNETISM — Experiments with Magnetism — CHAPTER II STATIC ELECTRICITY — CHAPTER III STATIC ELECTRIC MACHINES — A Cylinder Electric Machine — A Wimshurst Machine — Experiments with an Electric Machine — CHAPTER IV CELLS AND BATTERIES — Secondary or Storage Batteries — CHAPTER V ELECTRO-MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC INDUCTION — Induction — CHAPTER VI ELECTRICAL UNITS — The Ampere — The Volt — The Ohm — The Watt — The Coulomb — The Difference between Alternating and Direct Currents — CHAPTER VII ELECTRICAL APPURTENANCES — Wires — Insulators — Binding-Posts — Switches and Cut-Outs — Fuses — Lightning-Arresters — CHAPTER VIII ELECTRICAL MEASURING INSTRUMENTS — A Simple Voltmeter and Ammeter — A Portable Voltmeter and Ammeter — Galvanoscopes and Galvanometers — How to Make a Wheatstone Bridge — How to Use a Wheatstone Bridge for Measuring Resistance — CHAPTER IX BELLS, ALARMS, AND ANNUNCIATORS — A Burglar Alarm — An Electric Alarm — An Annunciator — CHAPTER X ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS — How To Make a Simple Key and Sounder — How To Build a Telegraph Relay — How To Learn To Telegraph — CHAPTER XI MICROPHONES AND TELEPHONES — Telephones — How to Build a Telephone — CHAPTER XII INDUCTION COILS — Spark-Coils — Building a Spark-Coil — Experiments with a Spark-Coil — Geissler Tubes — Ghost Light — Puncturing Paper — A Practical Joke — An Electric Garbage-can — Photographing an Electric Discharge — Jacob’s Ladder — X-Rays — CHAPTER XIII TRANSFORMERS — CHAPTER VIV WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY — HOW TO BUILD WIRELESS INSTRUMENTS — CHAPTER XV A WIRELESS TELEPHONE — CHAPTER XVI ELECTRIC MOTORS — CHAPTER XVII DYNAMOS — A 10-Watt Dynamo — CHAPTER XVIII AN ELECTRIC RAILWAY — CHAPTER XIX MINIATURE LIGHTING — CHAPTER XX MISCELLANEOUS ELECTRICAL APPARATUS — HOW ELECTRICITY MAY BE GENERATED FROM HEAT — HOW TO MAKE A REFLECTOSCOPE — HOW TO REDUCE THE 110-v. CURRENT SO THAT IT MAY BE USED FOR EXPERIMENTING — AN INDUCTION MOTOR — ELECTRO-PLATING — HOW TO MAKE A RHEOSTAT — A CURRENT REVERSER OR POLE-CHANGING SWITCH — A COMPLETE WIRELESS RECEIVING SET — HOW TO BUILD A TESLA HIGH-FREQUENCY COIL — CONCLUSION
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