Excerpt from Voltagal, Genius of Electricity: Or Ned Benson's Adventures and Talk
When, last year, the "A Man," of the "Great Rock Island Route," prepared the little Christmas book entitled "Watt-Stephen, The Genius of Steam, or Ned's Adventures with One of the Genii," he determined, God willing, that he would prepare a companion to it for Christmas, 1885, upon the equally instructive subjects of Electricity and Magnetism.
Nearly everything now accepted as demonstrated truth in regard to electricity, has been learned within the past one hundred years; and wonderful as have been the discoveries, and marvelous as has been the application of electricity to the uses of mankind, we are only on the threshold, so to speak, of our knowledge of this greatest of all natural forces.
When Franklin flew his kite with an iron point in its upper frame, and drew the lightning down the string to the key he had tied a little above his hand, he solved a problem that has done all the world good, for he set men to thinking in new lines, and thought induces study; study, the patient observation of phenomena; and knowledge of phenomena brings discovery of scientific principles, and the application of those principles marks the milestones along the highway of human progress and invention.
One man observes, at a given point, certain results from the operation of natural forces; another observes the same phenomena from another point, and they by and by compare the records of their watching and arrive at certain conclusions.
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