Back on Feb. 14, 1904, someone curious about the emerging possibilities of a key force of nature checked out James Clerk Maxwell’s book, "An Elementary Treatise on Electricity," from the New Bedford ...

Brett Christophers’s account of the market-induced failure to transition to renewables is his latest entry in a series of books demystifying a multi-pronged global crisis. A figure looks at the ...

A 119-year-old library book on the development of electricity has finally been returned. The New Bedford Public Library's copy of "An Elementary Treatise on Electricity" was checked out in 1904. The ...

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In “We Are Electric,” Sally Adee explores the body’s capacity for electricity; the results can be shocking. Bioelectricity has the power to transform medicine, and the military. Its potential is not ...

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