Cyclopedia of applied electricity : a general reference work on direct-current generators and motors, storage batteries, electrochemistry, welding, electric wiring, meters, electric lighting, electric railways, power stations, switchboards, power transmission, alternating-current machinery, telegraphy, etc. (1916)
American Technical Society · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 29
ber which had been rubbed withsilk attracted various sorts of light bodies. It was not, however, until1600 A. D. that Dr. William Gilbert, physician to Queen Elizabeth,and sometimes called the father of the modern science of electricityand magnetism, discovered that the effect could be produced by… … Fig. 16. Electrlflcatlon by Friction. Gilbert named the effect which was produced upon these varioussubstances by friction, electrification, after the Greek name for amber,electron. Thus, a body which, Hke rubbed amber, has been endowed• with the property of attractinghght bodies is said to have…
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