Transcriber's Note
This book was transcribed from scans of the original found at the Internet Archive. The page scans were done by Google.The original book was done as three volumes, but the edition I have transcribed put all three volumes together as aclothbound book. As a result it had three identical prefaces and duplicated ads. I have included one preface, at thebeginning, and put the ads at the end of the book. I have rotated a couple of illustrations.
Arts and Science Series No. 7
Home-made
Electrical Apparatus
A Practical Handbook for Amateur
Experimenters
In Three Parts
Volume I
Second Edition
BY
A. M. Powell
PUBLISHED BY
COLE & MORGAN, Inc.
Publishers of the Arts and Science Series
P.O. BOX 473 CITY HALL STATION
NEW YORK, N. Y.
Printed in U. S. A.
Copyright 1918
by
COLE & MORGAN, Inc.
PREFACE
The purpose of this book is to aid the young experimenterin building and operating his own electrical apparatus andinstruments. Every boy of now-a-days experiments withelectricity and the right sort of book which furnishes him with ideasgets close to his heart. Of books upon electricity there is noend. That is granted. But there are very few practical booksfor the young experimenter who wishes to constructmiscellaneous electrical apparatus for his own amusement andinstruction which really amounts to something and which is worth hispains when the labor has been finished.
This book is therefore offered as a volume of instruction formaking all sorts of batteries, rectifiers, motors, etc., which areentirely out of the toy class and yet are not so elaborate thatthey cannot be easily constructed ...