Ask HN: Best Layman's Book on Electricity
Decades ago, like in the 1950's perhaps, the US Navy created a training manual about electricity and electronics for its personnel (a reasonable facsimile of laymen).  This was used as the basis for a book called <i>Basic Electricity</i>.<p>1970:<p><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Basic-Electricity-Bureau-Naval-Personnel/dp/0486209733" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.ca/Basic-Electricity-Bureau-Naval-Personn...</a><p>2002:<p><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Handbook-Basic-Electricity-Naval-Personnel/dp/087891420X" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.ca/Handbook-Basic-Electricity-Naval-Perso...</a><p>2020:<p><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Basic-Electricity-Bureau-Naval-Personnel/dp/1420971018/" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.ca/Basic-Electricity-Bureau-Naval-Personn...</a>