Electricity and magnetism : a historical perspective

Baigrie, Brian S. (Brian Scott) (Author).

Summary: Traces the historical development of the theories related to electricity and magnetism, profiling the scientists who made the most significant contributions to the field and the most important developments and discoveries.

Record details

ISBN: 0313333580
ISBN: 9780313333583
Physical Description: print
xiii, 165 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-158) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Early investigations -- The emergence of systematic theory -- Electrical conduction -- Electrostatic phenomena -- From effluvia to fluids -- The science of galvanism -- Postscript : founding of the Royal Institution (1799) -- The current and the needle -- Forces and fields -- The science of electromagnetism -- Electromagnetic waves -- Charged particles of matter -- The atom and the new physics of the twentieth century.