Volts to Hertz: The Rise of Electricity

This book is the story of the rise of electricity told in the lives and works of sixteen men who are fittingly calling founding fathers of the electrical science. To these 16 pioneers, a grateful scientific posterity has given a measure of immortality by adopting their names for the practical units of electricity and magnetism. The book concludes with a chapter on the history of the origin and derivation of the electric and magnetic units themselves.