Nehemiah Hawkins
Published: 2018-09-20
Total Pages: 562
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Excerpt from Hawkins' Electrical Dictionary: A Cyclopedia of Words, Terms, Phrases and Data Used in the Electric Arts, Trades and Sciences; Including the Standardization Rules of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers But, he says, there are causes which, though slow in their opera tion and invisible in their progress, are perhaps as much superior to human resistance as the revolutions of the sky. By the cultivation of various sciences, language is amplified. Thus, the words and terms relating to electricity have, in the course of about fifty years, come to be a part of a language which has been growing and expanding for a thousand years. 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.
