American telegraphy and encyclopedia of the telegraph; systems, apparatus, operation (1909)
Maver, William, jr. [from old catalog] · New York, Maver publishing company · leaf 120
llon, etc. Analogously, electricity is measured, as to quantity, in terms of thecoulomb, a coulomb being that quantity which will flow past a given point in a cir-cuit in I second, when the current strength is i ampere. When an electrical condenser,under a pressure of i volt, holds, or accumulates,… … being greater the nearer they are together. It increases, other things being equal, asthe size of the plates is increased. The capacity is also found to vary with the insulat-ing material, or dielectric, employed between the plates; being greater, for instance,if the space be occupied by glass,…
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