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Elements of electricity, magnetism, and electro-dynamics

Farrar, John, 1779-1853, [from old catalog] comp, Biot, Jean-Baptiste, 1774-1862, Despretz, César Mansuète, 1789-1863. [from old catalog] · 1839 · Boston, Hilliard, Gray and company · 8 pictures

A college physics textbook on electricity, magnetism, and electro-dynamics compiled by John Farrar from Biot and Despretz for Harvard students, published in Boston by Hilliard, Gray and company in 1839. The plates are dense fold-out sheets of numbered outline engravings: batteries, jars, coils, horseshoe magnets, balances, rotating frames and wiring diagrams, drawn in thin line with no shading, useful as ready-made libraries of small apparatus silhouettes and schematic symbols.

Electricity · Magnetism

Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0