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• Magnetic Amplifiers: Theory and Application (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1958), by Sidney Platt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magnetic-Amplifier Circuits: Basic Principles, Characteristics, and Applications (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1954), by William A. Geyger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Static Electromagnetic Devices (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1963), by William T. Hunt and Robert Stein (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• R-C/R-L Time Constant (New York: J. F. Rider, c1954), ed. by Alexander Schure (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Servicing Receivers by Means of Resistance Measurement (New York: Radio Treatise Co., c1932), by John F. Rider (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• R-L-C Components Handbook (New York: J. F. Rider, c1959), by Mark David
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at worldradiohistory.com

• Impedance Matching (fifth printing; New York: J. F. Rider, 1963), ed. by Alexander Schure (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Alternating-Current Circuits (third edition; Scranton, PA: International Textbook Co., c1960), by K. Y. Tang (page images at HathiTrust)
• A-C Circuit Analysis (New York: J. F. Rider, c1958), ed. by Alexander Schure (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Theory of A-C Circuits (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1958), by Sylvan Fich and James L. Potter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essentials of Alternating Currents (New York: John Wiley and Sons, c1919), by W. H. Timbie and H. H. Higbie (PDF at djm.cc)
• Experiments With Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency (1892), by Nikola Tesla (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Alternating-Current Circuits (first edition; Scranton, PA: International Textbook Co., 1940), by K. Y. Tang (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Hour a Day With Rider on Alternating Currents in Radio Receivers (New York: J. F. Rider, c1937), by John F. Rider (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Practical Alternating Currents and Power Transmission (New York: W. L. Hedenberg Pub. Co., 1906), by Newton Harrison
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla; With Special Reference to His Work in Polyphase Currents and High Potential Lighting (with three lectures by Tesla; New York: Electrical Engineer, 1894), by Thomas Commerford Martin, contrib. by Nikola Tesla
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Transmission of Power; Polyphase System; Tesla Patents (Pittsburgh: Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., ca. 1893), by Nikola Tesla (page images at HathiTrust)

• Alternating-Current Circuits (third edition; Scranton, PA: International Textbook Co., c1960), by K. Y. Tang (page images at HathiTrust)
• A-C Circuit Analysis (New York: J. F. Rider, c1958), ed. by Alexander Schure (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Theory of A-C Circuits (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1958), by Sylvan Fich and James L. Potter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alternating-Current Circuits (first edition; Scranton, PA: International Textbook Co., 1940), by K. Y. Tang (page images at HathiTrust)

• Transmission of Power; Polyphase System; Tesla Patents (Pittsburgh: Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., ca. 1893), by Nikola Tesla (page images at HathiTrust)

• Basic Electrical and Electronic Principles (third edition; New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1962), by Maurice Grayle Suffern (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty Eight Million Horses (Philadelphia et al.: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1940), by Humphrey B. Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Basic Radio (6 volumes in 1; New York: J. F. Rider, c1961), by Marvin Tepper (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Basic Electricity (Navy Training Course NAVPERS 10086-A; Washington: GPO, 1960), by United States Bureau of Naval Personnel (page images at HathiTrust)
• A. B. C. of Electrical Experiments: A Practical Elementary Book Especially Adapted to Beginners and Students (New York, Excelsior publishing house, ca. 1902), by William Joseph Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ABC of Electricity, Including Wireless Telegraphy (revised edition; New York: Excelsior Pub. House, c1909), by Wm. H. Meadowcroft (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Elementary Lectures on Electric Discharges, Waves and Impulses, and Other Transients (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1911), by Charles Proteus Steinmetz (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Elementary Treatise on Electricity (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1881), by James Clerk Maxwell, ed. by William Garnett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Experimental Researches in Electricity (3 volumes; London: R. Taylor and W. Francis, 1844-1855; second volume is from second edition), by Michael Faraday
  • Volume I: page images at Gallica
  • Volume II: page images at Gallica
  • Volume III: page images at Gallica
• Invisible Light: or, The Electric Theory of Creation (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., 1900), by Geo. W. Warder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism, by H. W. Watson and S. H. Burbury
  • volume 1: page images at Cornell
  • volume 2: page images at Cornell
• Qué es la Electricidad? Conferencias Dadas en la Residencia de Estudiantes los Días 16, 19, 23, 26 y 30 de Enero de 1917 (in Spanish; Madrid: Pub. de la Residencia de Estudiantes, 1917), by Blas Cabrera
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Story of Electricity, by John Munro (Gutenberg text)
• Theory of Electricity and Magnetism (London and New York: Macmillan, 1897), by Charles Emerson Curry, contrib. by Ludwig Boltzmann (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (2 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1873), by James Clerk Maxwell (both volumes: page images at CMU)
• The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. (9 volumes; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1839-1840), by Humphry Davy, ed. by John Davy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Audels New Electric Science Dictionary: Defining Over 9000 Words, Terms and Phrases Used in Theoretical and Applied Electricity (New YorkL T T. Audel and Co., c1941), by Frank Duncan Graham (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism: With a Series of Curious and Interesting Experiments Performed Before the Commissioners of the French National Institute, and Repeated Lately in the Anatomical Theatres of London (London: Printed for Cuthell and Martin and J. Murray, 1803), by Giovanni Aldini (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Expériences et Observations sur l'Électricité, Faites à Philadelphie en Amerique (translated into French and revised by Alibard, second edition; Paris: Durand, 1756), by Benjamin Franklin, ed. by Thomas François Dalibard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America (London: Printed and sold by E. Cave, 1751), by Benjamin Franklin
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • frame- and Javascript-dependent page images at rarebookroom.org
• De Viribus Electricitatis in Motu Musculari Commentarius; Cum Joannis Aldini Dissertatione et Notis; Accesserunt Epistolae ad Animalis Electricitatis Theoriam Pertinentes (in Latin; Modena: Apud Societatem Typographicam, 1792), by Luigi Galvani, contrib. by Giovanni Aldini (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Experimental Researches in Electricity (3 volumes; London: R. Taylor and W. Francis, 1844-1855; second volume is from second edition), by Michael Faraday
  • Volume I: page images at Gallica
  • Volume II: page images at Gallica
  • Volume III: page images at Gallica

• Electricity in Economic Growth (1986), by National Research Council Commission on Electricity in Economic Growth (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Babylon Electrified: The History of an Expedition Undertaken to Restore Ancient Babylon by the Power of Electricity and How It Resulted (Philadelphia: Gebbie and Co., 1889), by A. Bleunard, trans. by Frank Weitenkampf, illust. by Montader (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A History of Electricity (New Illustrated Library of Science and Invention, v6; New York: Hawthorn Books, 1963), by Edward Tatnall Canby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the Exhibits at the Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition, 1882 (Washington: GPO, 1883), by Frank J. Sprague (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale (Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Co., c1901), by L. Frank Baum, illust. by Fanny Y. Cory (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading)
• Bikey the Skicycle, and the Other Tales of Jimmieboy (New York: Riggs Pub. Co., 1902), by John Kendrick Bangs, illust. by Peter Newell
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Electrician and Mechanic (partial serial archives)
• The Jovian (selected issues, 1914-1919) (partial serial archives)
• Modern Electrics (partial serial archives)
• Modern Electrics and Mechanics (full serial archives)
• Electrical World (partial serial archives)
• Science and Invention, ed. by Hugo Gernsback (full serial archives)
• The Electrical Experimenter, ed. by Hugo Gernsback (partial serial archives)

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