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Tables of Contents for The Story of Electrical and Magnetic Measurements
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
PREFACE
xi
4
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
xv
CHAPTER 1 Measurements from the Beginning through the Middle Ages
1
4
Thales of Miletus (640-546 BC)
Peter Peregrinus (dates unknown)
CHAPTER 2 The Beginnings of Experimental Science William Gilbert (1544-1603)
5
4
CHAPTER 3 The First Rotating Electrostatic Generator Otto von Guericke (1602-1686)
9
6
CHAPTER 4 Electric Conductors and Insulators
15
4
Francis Hauksbee (ca 1666-1713)
Stephen Gray (1666-1736)
Granville Wheler (1701-1770)
CHAPTER 5 Vitreous and Resinous Electric Fluid Charles Francois de Cisternay du Fay (1698-1739)
19
2
CHAPTER 6 The Leyden Jar-The First Capacitor
21
4
Georg Matthias Bose (1710-1761)
Ewald Georg von Kleist (ca 1700-1748)
Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692-1761)
CHAPTER 7 A Bolt of Lightning Is an Electric Discharge Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
25
8
CHAPTER 8 Early Electrostatic-Measuring Instruments
33
8
John Canton (1718-1772)
Tiberius Cavallo (1749-1809)
Horace Benedict de Saussure (1740-1799)
Abraham Bennet (1750-1799)
Alessandro Volta (1745-1827)
CHAPTER 9 The First Quantitative Measurements of Electricity and Magnetism Charles Augustin Coulomb (1736-1806)
41
8
CHAPTER 10 A Carefully Prepared Leg of a Dead Frog Twitches When Stimulated Electrically Luigi Galvani (1737-1798)
49
4
CHAPTER 11 Current Electricity Can Be Produced By Chemical Action Alessandro Volta (1745-1827)
53
8
CHAPTER 12 An Electric Current Has an Associated Magnetic Field Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851)
61
6
CHAPTER 13 The Foundations of Electrodynamics Andre Marie Ampere (1775-1836)
67
8
CHAPTER 14 Early Electromagnetic Indicating Instruments
75
8
Johann Salomo Christof Schweigger (1779-1857)
Johann Christian Poggendorf (1796-1877)
James Cumming (1777-1861)
Leopoldi Nobili (1784-1835)
CHAPTER 15 Mathematics Using Harmonically Related Sinusoids Jean Baptiste Fourier (1768-1830)
83
8
CHAPTER 16 Ohm's Law: X= a/1, E= IR, or I= V/R Georg Simon Ohm (1789-1854)
91
14
CHAPTER 17 Advanced Applications of Mathematics to Measurements and the Development of Many Magnetic and Electrical Measuring Instruments
105
12
Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)
Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804-1891)
CHAPTER 18 Acoustics and Electricity Research Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875)
117
6
CHAPTER 19 Transformations of Electrical and Mechanical Energy Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
123
16
CHAPTER 20 Electromagnetics and Self-Inductance Joseph Henry (1797-1878)
139
14
CHAPTER 21 The Kelvin Scale, Transatlantic Cable, Sensitive Galvanometers, and Electrometers William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
153
18
CHAPTER 22 Electromagnetic Radiation James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
171
12
CHAPTER 23 The Beginnings of Radio
183
10
Heinrich Rudolph Hertz (1857-1894)
Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937)
CHAPTER 24 The Story of a Successful Electrical Instrument Manufacturer Edward Weston (1850-1936)
193
10
CHAPTER 25 The Discovery of the Electron, Part I Joseph John Thomson, (1856-1940)
203
10
CHAPTER 26 The Discovery of the Electron, Part II: Verifying J.J. Thomson's Results and Developments Leading into the Twentieth Century
213
2
APPENDIX: PHOTO SECTION
215
16
INDEX
231
8
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
239