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During the early nineteenth-century craze for conducting kite
experiments in lightning, deaths were not unheard of. Electrical
physicists, meanwhile, were often shocked badly enough to collapse
in the course of their work. However, the perils of electricity did
not deter its proponents. Published in 1844, this enlarged
collection of lectures by Henry Minchin Noad (1815 77) had proven
immensely popular in earlier incarnations, eventually running to
four editions and recognised as an invaluable textbook for
electricians and telegraph engineers until the turn of the century.
An electrical practitioner himself, Noad includes illustrated
explanations of some of the most significant ideas in the field,
and describes many of his own experiments, from his version of the
lightning kite to a battery constructed with fifty jars and a
thousand feet of wire. His work remains relevant to students in the
history of science.
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