It took 119 years for this book about the emerging possibilities of a key force of nature published in 1881 to make its way back to the Massachusetts library.
New Bedford Public Library Director Olivia Melo, points to a stamp dating to 1882 when the New Bedford library system acquired the book, on Friday, July 7, 2023, in New Bedford, Mass. On Feb. 14, 1904, someone curious about the emerging possibilities of a key force of nature checked out James Clerk Maxwell's "An Elementary Treatise on Electricity" from the New Bedford Free Public Library.
Plein found the treatise and noticed it had been part of the collection at the New Bedford library and, critically, had not been stamped "Withdrawn," indicating that while extremely overdue, the book had not been discarded. The treatise was first published in 1881, two years after Maxwell's death in 1879, although the cranberry-coloured copy now back at the New Bedford library is not considered a rare edition of the work, Melo said.
When the book was last in New Bedford, the nation was preparing for its second modern World Series, incumbent Republican President Theodore Roosevelt was on track to win another term, Wilbur and Orville Wright had conducted their first airplane flight just a year before and New York City was celebrating its first subway line.
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