A dictionary of electrical words, terms and phrases (1896)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914 · New York, The W.J. Johnston company · leaf 217
f attracted-disc electrometer.(See Electrometer, Attracted-Disc) Electrometer, Attracted-Disc A for. a of electrometer devised by Sir William Thomson, in which the force is measured bythe attraction between the two discs. Thomsons Attracted-Disc Electrometer isshown in Fig. 230. It consists of a… … Fig. 230. Attracted-Disc Electrometer, towards C, or a movement away from it. Theplate, C, is placed in contact with B, by means ofa thin wire. By means of this connection thedistribution of the charge over the plate, C, isuniform. The electrostatic attraction is meas-ured by the attraction of the…
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