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 39
nent charge; that Fig. 24. Influence of Pointed Conductor is if one attempts tO charge itupon Electric Charge. , / ° by rubbing over it a charged glassrod or other charged body, the indicators will be found to collapseas soon as the rod is removed. That this is due to an effect of thepoint can be… … 20 ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM The density of the charge becomes so intense upon the point that themolecules of air immediately adjoining the point are broken apart into posi-tive and negative parts, and portions which are of unlike sign to the chargeon the point are attracted to it, thus…
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