The Electrical Researches of ... Henry Cavendish, F. R. S.: Written Between 1771 and 1781, Ed. from the Original Manuscript ... |
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Page xix
... length of one large tube , the area of whose bore is equal to that of the nine small ones 125. Comparison of the diminution of the shock by passing through iron wire or through salt water 126 . Measures of glass tubes used in p . 123 ...
... length of one large tube , the area of whose bore is equal to that of the nine small ones 125. Comparison of the diminution of the shock by passing through iron wire or through salt water 126 . Measures of glass tubes used in p . 123 ...
Page xxxiv
... length because it does not appear to have been noticed by Cavendish's biographers , and because it shows him cooperating with Franklin and others in an electrical investigation undertaken in the interest of the nation . Cavendish's ...
... length because it does not appear to have been noticed by Cavendish's biographers , and because it shows him cooperating with Franklin and others in an electrical investigation undertaken in the interest of the nation . Cavendish's ...
Page lii
... length and half the diameter , placed at different distances . The seventh , Art . 281 , compares the charges of a globe , a circle , a square , an oblong and three different cylinders , and the eighth , Art . 288 , shows that the ...
... length and half the diameter , placed at different distances . The seventh , Art . 281 , compares the charges of a globe , a circle , a square , an oblong and three different cylinders , and the eighth , Art . 288 , shows that the ...
Page lvii
... length of the effec- tive column of the liquid could be altered by sliding the wire in the straight part of the tube . In order to send electric discharges of equal quantity and equal electromotive force through two different tubes ...
... length of the effec- tive column of the liquid could be altered by sliding the wire in the straight part of the tube . In order to send electric discharges of equal quantity and equal electromotive force through two different tubes ...
Page lxi
... length of salt water was 21.8 inches as much as in passing through a single column of the same size whose length was 22.94 inches ** . The difference would have been far greater if the comparison had been made with an ordinary ...
... length of salt water was 21.8 inches as much as in passing through a single column of the same size whose length was 22.94 inches ** . The difference would have been far greater if the comparison had been made with an ordinary ...
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