A history of the Cavendish laboratory 1871-1910. With 3 portraits in collotype and 8 other illustrations (1910)
London, New York, Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 198
nd when they are better understoodthey will probably throw great light on the nature of electricity aswell as on the nature of gases and of the medium pervading space.At present, however, they must be considered outside the domainof the mathematical theory of electricity. It was early recognised… … fS 13 C -1 I—, K ZO L(] ^^ fCM ?: . -, o oj.- < J3: s < J • oa; (1895-1898) i6i mere contact with an electrified surface. This view wassupported by the observation that the vapour arising from astrongly electrified liquid was itself entirely free from charge.The conception thus arose that a…