Cumming, Linnæus, b. 1843. [from old catalog] · New York, D. Van Nostrand · leaf 139
ory of Induction.—Faraday haslaid down a theory of induction agreeable to this conception,and this was the first step towards a true physical conceptionof electrical actions. He satisfied himself that induction wasnot due to action at a distance between the electrified bodyand the body under… … Fig. 81. of which acts as a conductor, but which are separated fromeach other by a non-conducting medium, or, at least, non-con-ducting up to a certain limiting strain among the molecules.The electrification of the surface bounding the field (or ofthe conductor, if we choose still to speak of it)…
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