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 Basic Electricity.1970:https://www.amazon.ca/Basic-Electricity-Bureau-Naval-Personn...2002:https://www.amazon.ca/Handbook-Basic-Electricity-Naval-Perso...2020:https://www.amazon.ca/Basic-Electricity-Bureau-Naval-Personn...