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 466
the crown of theincluded Glass like Flashes ofLightning. They were flashes of lightning,and this was the first suggestion of that great identity byone who was building far better than he ever knew. The behavior of the light is curious. When the mer-cury falls into a vacuum, there is a gentle,… … HAUKSBKES I^UMINOUSMERCURIAI, FOUNTAIN.^ 460 THE INTELLECTUAI. RISE IN ELECTRICITY. concludes Hauksbee, whose fascination with his workshows itself now in every line of his description, thatsort of light does not resemble the little bluish radiance inthe barometer ! What is it? He undertakes to…
Electricity · Magnetism
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