Cumming, Linnæus, b. 1843. [from old catalog] · New York, D. Van Nostrand · leaf 121
it an excited glass rod, charged + (Fig. 66a),and the leaves will diverge, owing to the inductive separa-tion of electricities, + E. going to the leaves, and — E. to thecap, the potential of the leaves and cap, owing to the induc-tion, being higher than the earth. Touch the cap with the 102… … charge. Eemove first the finger, and next the inducingbody (Fig. 66c), and the electroscope leaves diverge withtheir negative charge now set free. 75. Faradays Ice-pail Experiment.—To find the totalamount of inductive action of which an electrified body iscapable, Faraday adopted the following…
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