- Hawkins Electrical Guide
The "Hawkins Electrical Guide" was a technical engineering book published in 1917, intended for the common man to understand highly complex principles of every manner of electric device. The book is notable for the extremely high number of detailed illustrations it contains, and the small softbound size of the volumes.
The book was published by Theodore Audel & Company, and the majority of the illustrative content became the basis of decades of followup books published under the "Audels" brand name. The illustrative content of these books can still be found in Audels books sold new today.
Because the "Hawkins Electrical Guide" was printed in the United States prior to 1923, the content of the books has passed into the
public domain .Free media access on the Internet
Due to several book digitizing initiatives such as the
Gutenberg project many of these older public domain books are becoming available on the Internet. This series of books is currently available for free, non-commercial use fromGoogle Books and each volume can be downloaded as a PDF, though the illustration scan quality is not as good as the ones being added to Wikipedia on this page by Wikipedia contributors.Google Books Volume Links
As of September 2008, Google Books does not provide a simple, direct means to find each volume of this media set, and appears to include scanned copies of different volumes from different libraries and copyright dates from 1914-1917. Scan quality varies from one volume to the next. For your convenience, links to the available scanned media are provided here:
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=-ZFEAAAAIAAJ Volume 1] , Copyright 1917, Impression 1921, from the University of California
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=7EVWAAAAMAAJ Volume 2] , Copyright 1917, from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, General Library System
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=yyEVAAAAYAAJ Volume 3] , Copyright 1917, Impression 1926, from the Harvard College Library
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=CENWAAAAMAAJ Volume 4] , Copyright 1917, from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, General Library System,
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=rUJWAAAAMAAJ Volume 5] , Copyright 1917, from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, General Library System
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=hSEVAAAAYAAJ Volume 6] , Copyright 1917, from the Harvard College Library
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=ynkAAAAAMAAJ Volume 7] , Copyright 1914, from the New York Public Library
* Volume 8, (have not found a link for this yet)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=N4sVAAAAYAAJ Volume 9] , Copyright 1917, Impression 1926, from the Harvard College Library
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=obAVAAAAYAAJ Volume 10] , Copyright 1917, Impression 1924-1925, from the Harvard College LibraryIllustrations from Volume 1
Chapter 14: The Dynamo: Current Commutation
Chapter 17: The Armature
Illustrations from Volume 2
Chapter 35: Operation of Motors
Illustrations from Volume 7
Chapter 66, Power Stations
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