Electricity for public schools and colleges (1891)
Larden, W. (Walter), b. 1855 or 6 · London : Longmans · leaf 193
ce of zincand a piece of copper soldered end to end. We may use the quadrant electrometer, putting one pair of cjuadrants toearth, and connecting the other pair with an insulated terminal. If the zinc be held in the hand, while we touch the lower condensing plateof the gold-leaf electroscope (or… … Fig. i. In this experiment it is assumed as sufficiently proved by various con-vergent pieces of evidence that the zinc, held in the moistened hand, ispractically at the zero-V of the earth ; and that the contact of the copper withthe brass of the electroscope gives no A V. Hence, it is argued, the…
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