Abstract
This bibliography was prepared at the request of the Subcommittee on Wires and Cables of the Standards Committee of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE), and is intended specifically to be a continuation of that published by E.H. Rayner in Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, (England) 1912, volume 49, p. 53, who describes his bibliography as follows: The references given are to articles in periodical literature only. With few exceptions they deal with the physics of dielectrics from the point of view of energy loss and electric strength.