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Excerpt from Lessons in Practical Electricity: Principles, Experiments, and Arithmetical Problems; Over Four Hundred Illustrations; An Elementary d104 Book Lessons in Practical Electricity, Which was published by the Spring Garden Institute for the use of its evening classes in practical electricity. The demand for the book arose from two facts: First these classes, being composed of young men engaged in various occupations Who desired to obtain a, beginner's knowl edge of the principles and arithmetic of applied electricity, were very large; Second - an unsuccessful attempt was made to obtain a book suitable for thoroughly supplementing a combined course of lectures and individual laboratory work. The educational success attained at the Institute, and also at several other schools Which secured the privilege of obtain ing 00pies of the edition, (now exhausted), and the fact that the former situation had. Again to be met, seemed to warrant the preparation of the present volume Which has been entirely re written and several hundred new illustrations introduced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.