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Excerpt from Practical Measurements in Magnetism and Electricity In preparing this book, the purpose has been to meet the requirements of students in the scientific courses in high, preparatory, and manual training schools, and in the introduction to more advanced work in college, as well as those of the practical man who wishes to become familiar with the foundation principles of the subject. The greatest benefit that can be derived from experimental work is that obtained from the careful and painstaking observation of the experimenter; for this reason the directions given for the experiments are in outline, rather than in detail. The student who makes these experiments should keep careful notes, adding to the apparatus recommended anything that may seem desirable, varying the manipulation, and drawing such conclusions as the experiment teaches. He should also keep a full set of notes on observations made. The accuracy and fullness of these notes will be an index of the benefit that he is receiving from the work. No attempt has been made to cover more than a small part of the field; but the belief is entertained that a thorough familiarity with the principles and experiments outlined in this book will provide a good foundation for a more extended study, or for the practical application of these principles to the requirements of practice. 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.