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ELECTRICITY has so many applications, and it is so much in evidence everywhere, that it may be presumed that few of the rising generation of boys and girls are without some knowledge of batteries, dynamos, telephones, and vacuum tubes. If the elementary principles are clearly explained, even the most complicated electrical machinery lends itself to popular exposition, and there is ample room for well-written books such as that by Mr. Hawks. Within the space of some 300 pages he has been able to include a great deal of interesting matter regarding power stations, electric lighting, electric furnaces and welding, telephones, telegraphs, radio communication, X-rays, photo-telegraphy and television. There are no fewer than 41 plates and 91 illustrations. It is a book which will no doubt find its way into the hands of many boys, and it is essentially one to be included in the school library. In the preface Mr. Hawks says that Faraday's annual salary probably never exceeded £100. One is happy to think Faraday was paid more than that, and moreover, had he been so minded, he might have made a fortune.
The Book of Electrical Wonders.
Ellison
Hawks
By. Pp. 316 + 41 plates. (London, Bombay and Sydney: George G. Harrap and Co., Ltd., 1929.) 7s. 6d. net.
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The Book of Electrical Wonders . Nature 125, 923 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125923c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/125923c0