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.
It would take 119 years and the sharp eyes of a librarian in West Virginia before the scientific text finally found its way back to the Massachusetts library.
Plein contacted Jodi Goodman, the special collections librarian in New Bedford, to alert her to the find. The library occasionally receives books as much as 10 or 15 years overdue, but nothing anywhere close to a century or more, she said.
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