Electricity in the 17th and 18th centuries

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1. kristopolousJul 2023
   Here's a few going back 270 years with a focus on electricity, enjoy.

   * Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries A Study of Early Modern Physics (1979) https://archive.org/details/electricityin17t0000heil

   * Early electrical communication (1964) https://archive.org/details/earlyelectricalc0000marl

   * Bibliographical history Of Electricity And Magnetism (1922) https://archive.org/details/bibliographicalh033138mbp/page/n...

   ^ This is still one of the best.

   * Electric Science Its History, Phenomena, and Applications (1853) https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Lks1AAAAMAAJ

   * The History and Present State of Electricity (1769) https://archive.org/details/historyandprese00priegoog

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2. HamptonFoundersJul 2023
   Not sure if this is helpful, but a friend fed this conversation through ChatGPT and had it summarize for easier reading:

   -The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy -Bigger by Marc Levinson

   -The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos

   -Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World by Erik Larson

   -Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard -White

   -The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty that Armed Germany at War by William Manchester

   -Edison by Edmund Morris

   -Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow

   -The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century by Steven Watts

   -Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler

   -The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage

   -The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick

   -Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael S. Malone

   -The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester

   -The Innovators by Walter Isaacson

   -Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn White Jr.

   -The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner

   -Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics by Eric H. Chaney

   -Early Electrical Communication by A. F. Marland

   -Bibliographical History of Electricity and Magnetism by Silvanus P. Thompson

   -Electric Science: Its History, Phenomena, and Applications by J. J. Fahie

   -The History and Present State of Electricity by Andrew Ure

   -https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

   -De Re Metallica by Georgius Agricola

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