Hawkins electrical guide ... : questions, answers & illustrations : a progressive course of study for engineers, electricians, students and those desiring to acquire a working knowledge of electricity and its applications ; a practical treatise (1914)
Hawkins, N. (Nehemiah), 1833-1928 · New York : T. Audel & Co. · leaf 30
,when it is attracted by the presence of a neighboring charge ofthe opposite kind. 10 HAWKINS ELECTRICITY Conductors and Insulators.—The term conductors is ap-plied to those bodies which readily allow electricity to flowthrough them, in distinction from insulators or so called non-conductors, which… … Fig. 9.—Experiment to illustrate the effect of pointed conductors. Fig. 10.—Electric windmill which operates by the reaction due to the escape of the electriccharge from the points. Electroscopes.—These are instruments for detecting whethera body be electrified or not, and indicating also whether…
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