Introduction.
1: The discovery of the piezoelectric effect.
2: The Road to the Descriptive Theory
3: Theories and models about the causes of the piezoelectric phenomena.
4: Theoretical elaboration of Voigt's theory.
5: Empirical work in the 1890s
Concluding Remarks
Appendix. 1. Earlier appearances of electricity by pressure.
Appendix 2. Mathematical Works on Voigt's General Theory
Appendix 3. Voigt's Concepts of Electric Charge
Appendix 4. Tables
Bilbliography
Index