 The discharge, whatever may be its nature, is not correctly represented (employing for simplicity the theory of Franklin) by the single transfer of an imponderable fluid from one side of the jar to the other; the phenomena require us to admit the existence...  Transactions - Page 5941893Full view - About this book
 | Learned institutions and societies - 1844 - 306 pages
...imponderable fluid from one side of the jar to the other; the phenomena require us to admit the existence of a principal discharge in one direction, and then several...the preceding, until the equilibrium is obtained. All the facts are shown to be in accordance with this hypothesis, and a ready explanation is afforded... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1895 - 674 pages
...imponderable fluid from one side of the jar to the other; the phenomena require us to admit the existence of a principal discharge in one direction, and then several...forward, each more feeble than the preceding, until equilibrium is obtained. All the facts are shown to be in accordance with this hypothesis, and a ready... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1895 - 672 pages
...imponderable fluid from one side of the jar to the other ; the phenomena require us to admit the existence of a principal discharge in one direction, and then several...forward, each more feeble than the preceding, until equilibrium is obtained. All the facts are shown to be in accordance with this hypothesis, and a ready... | |
 | Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - Science - 1874 - 640 pages
...transfer from one side of the jar to the other: the phenomena require us to admit the existence of a principal discharge in one direction, and then several...the preceding, until' the equilibrium is obtained. "f In every case therefore of the electrostatic discharge, the testing needles were really subjected... | |
 | William Bower Taylor - Physicists - 1879 - 162 pages
...transfer from one side of the jar to the other: the phenomena require us to admit the existence of a principal discharge in one direction, and then several...feeble than the preceding, until the equilibrium is obtained."f In every case therefore of the electrostatic discharge, the testing needles were really... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1880 - 548 pages
...transfer from one side of the jar to the other: the phenomena require us to admit the existence of a principal discharge in one direction, and then several...the preceding, until the equilibrium is obtained."* In every case therefore of the electrostatic discharge, the testing needles were really subjected to... | |
 | 1881 - 856 pages
...transfer from one side of the jar to the other: the phenomena require us to admit the existence of a principal discharge in one direction, and then several...the preceding, until the equilibrium is obtained."* In every case therefore of the electrostatic discharge, the testing needles were really subjected to... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - Chemistry - 1881 - 850 pages
...transfer from one side of the jar to the other: the phenomena require us to admit the existence of a principal discharge in one direction, and then several...the preceding, until the equilibrium is obtained."* In every case therefore of the electrostatic discharge, the testing needles were really subjected to... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - Chemistry - 1881 - 834 pages
...transfer from one side of the jar to the other : the phenomena require us to admit the existence of a principal discharge in one direction, and then several...the preceding, until the equilibrium is obtained."* In every case therefore of the electrostatic discharge, the testing needles were really subjected to... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - Science - 1881 - 828 pages
...require us to admit the existence of a principal discharge in one direction, and then several rellex actions backward and forward, each more feeble than...the preceding, until the equilibrium is obtained."! In every case therefore of the electrostatic discharge, the testing needles were really subjected to... | |
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