The Electrical Researches of ... Henry Cavendish, F. R. S.: Written Between 1771 and 1781, Ed. from the Original Manuscript ... |
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... taken to be positive First experiment . A globe within a hollow globe and in communication with it does not become over or undercharged when the whole is 217 electrified ( Fig . 12 ) . • General description of the apparatus General plan ...
... taken to be positive First experiment . A globe within a hollow globe and in communication with it does not become over or undercharged when the whole is 217 electrified ( Fig . 12 ) . • General description of the apparatus General plan ...
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... taken together . Cavendish had thus a complete set of condensers of known capacity by means of which he measured the capacity of every piece of his apparatus , from the little wire which he used to connect his coated plates , and which ...
... taken together . Cavendish had thus a complete set of condensers of known capacity by means of which he measured the capacity of every piece of his apparatus , from the little wire which he used to connect his coated plates , and which ...
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... taken Torpedos at the Isle of Ré was not " able to force the torpedinal fluid across the minutest tract of air ; " not from one link of a small chain , suspended freely , to another ; not " through an almost invisible separation , made ...
... taken Torpedos at the Isle of Ré was not " able to force the torpedinal fluid across the minutest tract of air ; " not from one link of a small chain , suspended freely , to another ; not " through an almost invisible separation , made ...
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... taken at 24 in number . Twenty of these contain sundry Philo- " sophical papers on Mathematical and Experimental Electricity , and " Four sundry other Papers relating to Meteorology . " All these Papers are more or less confused as to ...
... taken at 24 in number . Twenty of these contain sundry Philo- " sophical papers on Mathematical and Experimental Electricity , and " Four sundry other Papers relating to Meteorology . " All these Papers are more or less confused as to ...
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... taken the trouble to write out a fair copy , and though all this seems to have been done before 1774 , and he continued to make experiments in electricity till 1781 , and lived on till 1810 , he kept his manu- script by him and never ...
... taken the trouble to write out a fair copy , and though all this seems to have been done before 1774 , and he continued to make experiments in electricity till 1781 , and lived on till 1810 , he kept his manu- script by him and never ...
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