Alessandro Volta and the electric battery
- Full text online of a book by Bern Dibner on the invention of the battery and the discovery of electric current.
- http://dibinst.mit.edu/BURNDY/OnlinePubs/Volta/index.html

The Great Magnet, the Earth
- Commemorating the 400th anniversary of "De Magnete" by William Gilbert of Colchester.
- http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthmag/demagint.htm

Historical Beginnings of Theories of Electricity and Magnetism
- A lecture from professor Michael Fowler at U of Virginia. Long and detailed.
- http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/more_stuff/E&M_Hist.html

History
- A time line of the development of electromagnetism from 900 BC to 1905.
- http://maxwell.byu.edu/~spencerr/phys442/node4.html