2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/175371It is demonstrated that the Melvin universe representing the spacetime with a strong 'homogeneous' electric field can by obtained from the spacetime of two accelerated charged black holes by a suitable limiting procedure. The behavior of various invariantly defined geometrical quantities in this limit is also studied.5 pages, no figures [v2: two references added]General Relativity and Quantum Cosmologytext