Class/Workshop: Electrostatics: The Science of Benjamin Franklin, Michael Faraday and King George III: Bibliography
Bibliography for the Basic Science Classes- 1.0 Electrostatics Class
1.1 Benjamin Franklin - Printer, Innovator. David Alder, J973.3082, Los Altos Library
1.2 Benjamin Franklin: The Kite That Won The Revolution, Asimov, J921, Los Altos Library.
1.3 Benjamin Franklin: A Biography (530 pages) Clark, 973.3092, Los Altos Library
1.4 Homemade Lightning: Creative Experiments in; R. A. Ford, 621.313, 1991, Los Altos Lib. (still in print and available as of Aug 93) Extensive bibliography. Excellent details on Wimshurst generator, electrophorus, electroscope, and Leyden jars.
1.5 Electrostatics; A.D. Moore; 1968 Doubleday, Garden City NY. 537.2 - Moore. Los Altos Lib. Folksy, simple but informative. Much detail on how to build the author's machine (a "Dirod" generator).
1.6 Experiments with Static Electricity; Sootin, 1969; J537.2028, Woodland (Los Altos) Library./
1.7 Lost Discoveries, The forgotten science of�.509.3, Ronan
1.8 A History of Science (Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece) 509.01 - CE V1, V2, Sarton (Cupertino Library)
1.9 The Most Dangerous Man in America. Catherine Bowen; 973.3209 Los Altos Library. Franklin Bowen , 274 pp.
1.10 Turning Points in American Electrical History, edited by James Brittain; IEEE Press, 1977. Wm. Watson's comments on Benjamin Franklin (pp 13-14).
1.11 A Treasury of Science, edited by Harlow Shapley, 1958 (DH Hesselgrave library). Section on Ben Franklin and his experiments; lightning; Leyden Jar; daylight savings time; bifocals.
1.12 Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries; a Study of Early Modern Physics. University of Cal Press, Berkeley CA (1979). (in print, out-of-stock at Berkeley/Princeton Press). A similar volume by the same author, 1982, in Stanford Green library, QC 507.H48. J. L. Heilbron. A very good history of the Leyden Jar developments.
1.13 Nature's Electricity, TAB 1987, Charles K. Adams. Leyden Jars, electroscope (including a dual-polarity one); index of tribolecectric series from high positive to high negative charge capability. Good details on Leyden Jars, electroscope, Van de Graaf generator, electrophorus. Rotary static generator, with different type of brush pickup. (All info is supplemental, not identical, to Ford's book.)
2.0 For Electromagnetics Details
2.1 Coils, Magnets, and Rings: Michael Faraday, Nancy Veglahn; J530.0924-Faraday
2.2 Electricity and Electromagnetic Fields, Francis E. Dart; 1966, Charles Merrill, Columbus OH. 537-Dart, Los Altos Library. Good data on Voltaic piles, batteries, cells.
2.3 Faraday as a Discoverer, John Tyndall, 921 - Faraday/Tyndall, Los Altos Library. Pg. 12, Oersted in 1820 discovered the action of current on a magneti zed needle; pg 21 ff, induced currents, coupled windings; pg 65, electrodes, electrolyte, electrolysis; pg 72, the Voltaic pile.
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