electricity: Bibliography

See D. L. Anderson, Discovery of the Electron: The Development of the Atomic Concept of Electricity (1964); W. T. Scott, The Physics of Electricity and Magnetism (2d ed. 1966); M. Kaufman and J. A. Wilson, Basic Electricity (1973); E. T. Whittaker, History of Theories of Aether and Electricity (1954, repr. 1987).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Era of Electromagnetism
• The Leyden Jar and the Quantitative Era
• History of Electricity
• Properties of Charges in Motion
• Properties of Charges at Rest
• Properties of Electric Charges
• Bibliography

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