The Electrical Researches of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, R.F.S., Written Between 1771 and 1781 |
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... taken to be positive 217 First experiment . A globe within a hollow globe and in communication with it does not become over or undercharged when the whole is electrified ( Fig . 12 ) . 218 General description of the apparatus 219 ...
... taken to be positive 217 First experiment . A globe within a hollow globe and in communication with it does not become over or undercharged when the whole is electrified ( Fig . 12 ) . 218 General description of the apparatus 219 ...
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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 ...
Page xxxv
... 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 by ...
... 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 by ...
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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 . 66 6 . " All these Papers are more or less confused ...
... 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 . 66 6 . " All these Papers are more or less confused ...
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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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attraction and repulsion battery canals of incompressible capacity Cavendish charge circle circumference coated plate column communication computed conductor consequently contain crown glass cylinder deficient fluid degree of electrification density diameter discharge disk disposed electric attraction electric fluid electric organs electrometer electromotive force equilibrio experiment fluid in AB force greater hemispheres impelled incompressible fluid infinite distance inner globe LEMMA less Leyden vial manner nearly equal observed overcharged body pass pith balls placed plane plate of glass positively electrified Prop proportion proposition quantity of electricity quantity of fluid quantity of redundant ratio redundant fluid redundant matter repulsion is inversely resistance rosin salt seems sensibly shock side sliding plate small in respect space spread uniformly square substance suppose surface theory thickness tinfoil torpedo touched trial plate tricity tried tube undercharged body whole
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