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The Conservation of Electricity

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BY the kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan and Co. I am allowed to quote the following paragraph from the preface to my “Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism”, shortly to be published by them in their School Class Books Series, and now in the press. The preface is dated “March, 1881”.

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    SILVANUS P. THOMPSON

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THOMPSON, S. The Conservation of Electricity. Nature 24, 78 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024078a0

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