Excerpt from The Kansas City Review, Vol. 9: Devoted to Science, the Arts, Industry and Literature; December, 1885What constitutes a safe current is hard to determine. A thin-skinned, moist-handed person would be killed by handling wires carrying a current of one thousand volts, while a dry, horny-handed person would not no tice the same contact.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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