Cumming, Linnæus, b. 1843. [from old catalog] · New York, D. Van Nostrand · leaf 160
e water drips to the same potential as the air in CHap. IV.] Electrical Machines. 141 contact with it. The electrical watering-pot depends onthis principle. A metal vessel, having a capillary outletby a syphon, is suspended from the prime conductor.Before electrification the water drips only one… … Fig. 94. It appears from the current of air which proceeds from thepoints that the particles of the air themselves become chargedat the point, and are then repelled, carrying their charge withthem, and discharging as they come against the walls of theroom or other conductors. This current of air is…
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