The Story of Electricity: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Story of Electricity by John Munro: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 13 original MP3 tracks, 6:27:37 running time and a link to listen.
The Story of Electricity, credited to John Munro, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Story of Electricity, by John Munro. Read by Ruth Golding. In the book's preface, the author writes: "Let anyone stop to consider how he individually would be affected if all electrical service were suddenly to cease, and he cannot fail to appreciate the claims of electricity to attentive study." In these days when we take for granted all kinds of technology - communications, entertainment, medical, military, industrial and domestic - it is interesting to learn what progress had been made in the fields of electricity and technology by the beginning of the 20th century. Including the dawn of hydro-electric power, the x-ray, the phonograph, the telephone and the wireless telegraph, this book explains the pioneering work of the men who made our modern world possible, and sets us wondering what the next century may bring. The Gutenberg text of the 1915 edition (as recorded) does not have the benefit of the book's many diagrams. Also available, however, is an online book scan of the 1912 edition which includes the illustrations and coincides largely with the text recorded. The Appendix comprises a glossary of scientific terminology. (Summary by Ruth Golding)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Story of Electricity
- Author credits: John Munro
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 13
- Listed recording duration: 6:27:37
Catalogue topics
- science
- electricity
- electric
- electrochemical
- electromagnetic
- electrolysis
- electrometallurgy
- magnetism
Track guide
- 01: Preface and Chapter 1: The Electricity of Friction — 34:05
- 02 - Chapter II: The Electricity of Chemistry — 25:18
- 03 - Chapter III: The Electricity of Heat — 8:12
- 04 - Chapter IV: The Electricity of Magnetism — 46:55
- 05 - Chapter V: Electrolysis — 14:21
- 06 - Chapter VI: The Telegraph and Telephone — 52:37
- 07 - Chapter VII: Electric Light and Heat — 21:43
- 08 - Chapter VIII: Electric Power — 33:40
- 09 - Chapter IX: Minor Uses of Electricity — 49:42
- 10 - Chapter X: The Wireless Telegraph — 27:58
- 11 - Chapter XI: Electro-Chemistry and Electro-Metallurgy — 31:35
- 12 - Chapter XII: Electric Railways — 23:22
- 13 - Appendix — 18:15
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