Electricity for public schools and colleges (1891)
Larden, W. (Walter), b. 1855 or 6 · London : Longmans · leaf 81
the charge has been conveyed to the gold-leaf electroscopeby the proof-plane, its strength can be roughly seen by observing the amountof divergence of the leaves, while its sign can be recognised by the approachof an excited ebonite rod. (ii.) While the conductor C D is in the presence of the… … Fig. ii. We should have expected this, since the portions of the earth near A Bwould probably, judging from experiment (i.), be -fly charged, while the —would go as far away from AB as possible. But still it seems at first a little surprising that the — charge shouldescape as readily if we touch…
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