The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 217
ackthread, and supported it by loops of silk,which would not conduct the current away fromthe cotton. He was able to send a current ofelectricity along his line of thread for a distanceof 886 feet. That was a wonderful achievement. An industrious Frenchman was at work on sim-ilar lines at this… … GREAT INVENTORS.406 SOME FAMOUS EXPLORERS AND INVENTORS 407 be used to hold up the packthread, and he foundthat by connecting himself with the electrifiedthread he himself became electrified, and thatwhen another person touched him there was acrackling sound, accompanied by a spark. Butthe great…
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