Makers of Electricity

"Makers of Electricity" by Brother Potamian and James J. Walsh is about the lives and work of important people who helped develop our understanding of electricity. It tells the stories of scientists and inventors, focusing not only on their discoveries but also on who they were as people. The book starts by looking at the earliest ideas about magnetism, especially the work of Petrus Peregrinus of Maricourt, to display how important early experiments were in finding out how electricity and magnetism work. The writing blends scientific history with personal stories and historical documents, highlighting the big impact those early scientists had on electrical science.