Hawkins Electrical Guide

The Hawkins Electrical Guide was a technical engineering book written by Nehemiah Hawkins, first published in 1914, intended to explain the highly complex principles of the new technology of electricity in a way that could be understood by the common man.

The book is notable for the extremely high number of detailed illustrations it contains, and the small softbound size of the volumes.

Because the Hawkins Electrical Guide was printed in the United States prior to 1923, the content of the books has passed into the public domain.

Due to several book digitizing initiatives such as the Gutenberg project, and The Hawkins Electrical Guide Online at the Wayback Machine (archived March 21, 2015), many of these older public domain books are becoming available on the Internet.

As of September 2008, Google Books does not provide a simple, direct means to find each volume of this media set, and appears to include scanned copies of different volumes from different libraries and copyright dates from 1914-1917.