Electricity for everybody; its nature and uses explained (1895)
Atkinson, Philip · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 57
closed gases, liquids, or solids.The most brilliant effects areproduced by an intermittentcurrent, like the static inducedcurrent described on page 35.or the faradic, described onpage 112. This discharge, following thevarious convolutions of thesmaller tube, may be three tosix feet or more in… … 44 ELECTRICITY FOR EVERYBODY. not exceed the same number of inches. But in thehigher vacuum of the Crookes tubes, which are of some-what similar construction, electric resistance increaseswith the vacuum, for the opposite reason —that is,from a want of sufficient air as the medium of trans-mission.…
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