The book talks about man's knowledge of electricity. The reader will meet participants in the first trips around the world, learn about electric fish, about reviving people with the help of electricity, and about other unique facts and events.

Contents Notebook one. A time to contemplate (7). Life among lightning (9). A riddle in the shape of a ball (14). Little pilots from Bermuda (23). Stars of the Dioscuri (28). Amber and a magnet (31). Notebook two. Time to search (39). Gilbert, court physician (41). New and terrible experience of Muschenbrek (50). Eripit coelo fulmen scemprumque turannis (54). Galvani - “resurrector of the dead” (61). Volta holds two coins in his mouth (66 Notebook three. Time to think (71).Secrets are not solved, they are given... (73).Crazy days, or the Discovery of electrodynamics (81).The birth of equations (87).Discovery in spite of itself (104).The final and decisive proof (116 Notebook four. Time to invent (139). A scientist discovered in a library (141). “Cagliostro, or Something Coming” and others (149). Across the ocean in twelve years (156). An idea finds an inventor (163).