The Library of Work and Play: Electricity and Its Everyday Uses

A parent-led, hands-on course in everyday electrical science presents practical demonstrations and accessible explanations, beginning with dynamos, magnets, and measuring instruments and progressing to motors, electromagnets, heating, lighting, and household wiring. Interspersed chapters describe do-it-yourself projects—lighting a camp, installing bells and telephone circuits, an electric brick oven—and explore wireless telegraphy, electric waves, and related theoretical ideas. The narrative emphasizes safety, observations at power stations, simple experiments, and how electrical devices and installations can be used to perform common tasks and solve practical problems.