Elementary treatise on electricity and magnetism : (1905)
Foster, G. C. (George Carey), 1835-1919, Joubert, J. (Jules François), 1834-1910, Porter, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1863-1939 · London ; New York ; Bombay : Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 164
zinc,each pair being separated from thenext by a round of cloth soakedwith acidulated water, as shownin section in Fig. 93, and in per-Y^Q 93 spective in Fig. 94. This arrange- ment is known as VoHas pile. Acorresponding combination of pairs of metal plates in separatevessels of liquid is called a… … 100] VOLTAS THEORY 141 100. Voltas Theory of Electrification by Contact.--In order to explain facts of the kind referred to in the last two para-graphs, Volta supposed that the surface of contact of two metals, ormore geneially of any two differ-ent substances, is the seat of apeculiar force, which…
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