1. The classic study in this connection is John Heilbron, Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries. A Study of Early Modern Physics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979; new edition: Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 1999).
2. The first book in English bearing that title was Park Benjamin, The Age of Electricity. From Amber-Soul to Telephone (New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1886).
3. The classic study is Thomas P. Hughes, Networks of Power. Electrification in Western Society, 1880–1930 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983).
4. Literature includes books such as: Christine Blondel, A. M. Ampère et la création de l’électrodynamique (1820–1827) (Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1982); Faraday
5. Rediscovered. Essays on the Life and Work of Michael Faraday, ed. David Gooding and Frank A. J. L. James (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1985);