Electricity for Boys

A practical manual aimed at young readers that explains electrical principles and hands-on construction of apparatus. It opens with a brief historical overview, then recommends workshop layout, tools, and safety precautions before guiding readers through building magnets, coils, armatures, batteries, and simple dynamos. It presents methods for detecting and measuring current, explains units such as volts, amperes, ohms, and watts, and describes common experiments and construction techniques with many illustrations. Emphasis is on progressive, step-by-step instruction to develop practical understanding, while warning that some demonstrations can be hazardous.