A history of electricity : the intellectual rise in electricity from antiquity to the days of Benjamin Franklin (1898)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York : J. Wiley & Sons · leaf 405
ng it where it may cling to the nose of 398 THE INTELLECTUAL RISE IN ELECTRICITY. n any one. Here lie is anticipating Franklin in recogniz-ing the effect of pointed conductors in drawing off theelectric charge. But, he continues, if one places a lighted candleupon the table and drives the feather… … VON GUERICKES E;I,ECTRICAI, MACHINE AND SULPHUR GI^OBE.^ feather by the hot air, so that it becomes no longer re-pelled but once more attracted by the rubbed globe. Now follows a number of other curious observations ofthe electrified feather. He finds that the same part orface of the feather by…
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