The Boston school compendium of natural and experimental philosophy .. (1837)
Parker, Richard Green, 1798-1869 · Boston : Marsh, Capen & Lyon · leaf 174
13. What is the thirteenth ! What does fig. 1fig. 123 represent! When will the pistol explode:Of what does it consist. 2 represent? 14. What doesWhat does fig. 124 represent? ELECTRICITY. 163 … 15. Fig. 125 representsthe electrical sports-man. From the larg-er ball of a Leydenjar two birds made ofpith* are suspended by-silk or hair. When thejar is charged the birdswill rise, as representedin the figure, on ac-count of the repulsionof the fluid in the jar.If the jar be thenplaced on the…
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