Elementary treatise on physics experimental and applied for the use of colleges and schools (1890)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, E. (Edmund) · New York : W. Wood · leaf 727
exterior, the electricitywill still be found on the exterior. -736j Distribution of Electricity. 701 V. The same point may be further illustrated by an experiment due toTerquem. A bird-cage, preferably of metal wire, is suspended by insulators,and contains either a gold-leaf electroscope or pieces… … Fig. 666. Bands of paper may be fixed to the inside ; while those fixed to the outsidediverge widely. A bird in the inside is quite unaffected by the charge ordischarge of the electricity of the cage. The property of electricity, of accumulating on the outside of bodies,is ascribed to the repulsion…
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