Electricity for Boys

Rivet two unlike metals together, heat the join, and watch a galvanometer for a sign of electricity. What can a boy discover with his own hands that a rule in a book might never show him?

At the dawn of the electrical age, discoveries from amber rubbed by the ancients to the instruments and machines of modern science have opened a field that still seems to hold nature’s secrets. James Slough Zerbe invites young readers into the workshop, where tools and experiments—not memorized rules—lead the way. The challenge is daunting: electricity is profound and complex, yet its practical wonders can be explored one careful experiment at a time. As the boy builds, tests, and observes, he is encouraged to reason out the principles for himself. What will the first experiment set him thinking about next?

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