Hawkins Electrical Guide V. 08

Hawkins Electrical Guide Volume 8 is part of Nehemiah Hawkins’s ten-volume practical electrical engineering series, first published in 1914. The eighth volume covers various advanced applications and reference material that working American electricians of the early twentieth century needed.

The volume includes specialized topics such as electric lighting installations, building wiring practice, electrical code requirements as they stood at the time of publication, and the various practical reference tables and formulas that electricians needed for daily work. The treatment is practical rather than theoretical throughout, in keeping with the series purpose of serving the working electrical trade.

Nehemiah Hawkins (1845-1928) produced the Electrical Guide series at a moment when American electrification was expanding rapidly and trained electrical workers were in short supply. The books filled a real gap in American technical education and remained in use for several decades.