Elementary treatise on physics, experimental and applied : for the use of colleges and schools (1906)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, Edmund, 1831-1901, Reinold, A. W. (Arnold William), 1843-1921 · New York : Wood · leaf 826
and any arrangement in which one conductoris placed in connection with a source of electricity separated by an insulatorfrom a second conductor, in conducting communication with the earth, iscalled a condenser, the former plate being the collectings and the other thecondensing plate. 782. Slow… … Fig. 760 For slow discharge, the plate B is touched with the finger and a spark passes.If A is now touched, a spark passes, and so on by continuing to touchalternately the two plates. The complete discharge may require a verylarge number of alternate contacts of the finger with A and B. An…
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