On February 14, 1904, someone curious about the emerging possibilities of a key force of nature checked out James Clerk Maxwell's “An Elementary Treatise on Electricity” from the New Bedford Free Public Library, in Massachusetts.It would take 119 years and the sharp eyes of a librarian in West Virginia before the scientific text finally found its way back to the library.The discovery occurred when Stewart Plein, the curator of rare books at West Virginia University Libraries, was sorting through a recent donation of books.
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