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 527
0 THE INTELLECTUAL RISE IN ELECTRICITY. stand on the floor, and must either hold the jar in one handand excite sparks with the other, or he may place the jaron a piece of metal on a table, and touch the metal withhis hand, bringing a finger of the other hand to the wire.Of course this experiment is… … tun I^EYDEN EXPERIMENT.* supposed, and as the Dantzic philosophers evidently re-fused to suppose, but in the apparatus, and that whenone hand touches the wire which enters the jar (and ex-tends down into the water therein), and the other handtouches the metal plate on which the jar rests, a path…
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