Volume I
Preserving Knowledge
The history, the fields, Tesla, the casebook and the frontier.
Manuscript drafted and audited; typesetting next. 32 chapters.
A three-volume handbook · Stephen Horton
The Forbidden Current
The ideas modern curricula are quietly dropping, from Tesla and Steinmetz to Heaviside and Dollard, kept in one place, told fairly, and rated claim by claim. It also gives you the working knowledge to understand and own the electrical systems you depend on.
Three volumes
Volume II
System Anatomies
The bench, the materials, the machines, and 46 annotated system plates.
Outlined; drafting after Volume I. Planned: 25 chapters.
Volume III
Off-Grid Solutions
The homestead microgrid, signals and memory, and about forty at-a-glance builds.
Outlined; drafting after Volume II. Planned: 10 chapters.
Print editions (hardcover and lay-flat coil-bound, planned at $34.95 each) will be sold here. Kindle editions will be on Amazon only. Formats and prices.
Every contested claim gets a rating
Contested ideas get their strongest honest telling, then an evidence status box: what is established, what is contested, and what would settle it. The book rates claims, never people, and never calls anything "debunked".
- Proven
- Established by replicated measurement or an unbroken documentary record. Stated plainly.
- Plausible
- Consistent with known physics and some evidence, but not yet nailed down.
- Disputed
- Credible evidence or argument on more than one side. Both sides get their strongest form.
- Untested
- Claimed, but no adequate test has been published either way.
- Examined, not replicated
- Tested at least once; independent replication has not reproduced the claimed effect.
Volume I: Preserving Knowledge
Thirty-two chapters on where electrical science came from and the ideas mainstream courses have stopped teaching: Tesla, Steinmetz, Heaviside, Dollard and the alternative lineage, told fairly and rated claim by claim. Every contested idea gets its strongest honest telling, an evidence status, and what has changed in recent research.