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Page 196 - ... and, when it is considered that the magnetism of the needle is the result of the difference of two actions, it may be further inferred, that the diffusion of motion in this case is almost comparable with that of a spark from a flint and steel in the case of light. The author next alludes to a proposition which he advanced in the second number of his Contributions, namely, that the phenomena of dynamic induction may be referred to the known electrical laws, as given by the common theories of electricity...
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Page 235 - Professor Bache stated that his attention had recently been particularly called, by a letter from M. Quetelet, Secretary of the Academy of Sciences of Brussels, to the general instructions for simultaneous observations of natural phenomena, issued by the Academy. Co-operation in the system of observations by observers in the United States being very desirable, Prof. Bache asked leave to offer the following resolution: "Resolved, That a Committee of five members be appointed, to report to the Society...
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Page 195 - In extending the researches relative to this part of the investigations, a remarkable result was obtained in regard to the distance at which induction effects are produced by a very small quantity of electricity ; a single spark from the prime conductor of a machine, of about an inch long, thrown on to the end of a circuit of wire in an upper room, produced an induction sufficiently powerful to magnetize needles in a parallel circuit of iron placed in the cellar beneath, at a perpendicular distance...
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