I Stationary Contacts.- ? 1. Introduction. A simplified summary of the theory of stationary electric contacts.- ? 2. The contact surface.- ? 3. The contact resistance. General theory.- ? 4. Calculation of constriction resistances with constant resistivity.- ? 5. Constriction resistances when conditions deviate from those in ? 4, but with ? still being a constant.- ? 6. Thermal constriction resistance.- ? 7. Films on contacts.- ? 8. The contact surface as a function of load and elastic as well as plastic properties of the members.- ? 9. The relation between contact load and resistance, particularly at moderate and high load.- ? 10. Contact resistance on freshly cleaned contacts at very small contact loads.- ? 11. The inductance of a current constriction. Skin effect.- ? 12. Electrodynamic repulsion in a symmetric contact of a non-magnetic material.- ? 13. The capacitance of a contact. Electrostatic attraction in a contact.- ? 14. Measurement of the load bearing contact area.- ? 15. The relationship between electric potential and temperature in a current constriction which is symmetric with respect to the contact surface; that is, the ?? relation.- ? 16. The ?? relation in cases of dissymmetry.- ? 17. K?hler effect.- ? 18. The influence of the Joule heat on constriction resistance.- ? 19. Distribution of the temperature in a symmetric constriction with circular contact surface at given current.- ? 20. Temperature distribution in the constriction of a contact with circular contact surface and members with very different conductivities.- ? 21. Resistance voltage characteristics of clean symmetric contacts. Softening and melting voltages.- ? 22. Development of the temperature in a current constriction.- ? 23. The growth of tarnish films on metals.- ? 24. Water films, local cells and rusting.- ? 25. Thermoelectric effects.- ? 26. Observations on the tunnel effect.- ? 27. Fritting of tarnish films.- ? 28. RU-characteristics of contacts with thin alien films.- ? 29. AdhlC"