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History, theory, and practice of the electric telegraph (1866)

Prescott, George B.(George Bartlett),1830-1894 · Boston, Ticknor and Fields · leaf 70

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duction can be entirely transformed into static electricity. This important principle, which Faraday discovered, has beenverified by experiments made upon a very large scale by MM.Masson and Breguet, and which are the more conclusive as thesource of the electricity which they employed for producing… … Fig. 31. the effects of static or frictional electricity are produced from thegalvanic battery. 52 PRELIMINARY NOTIONS. The power of this instrument is immensely greater than thatof the largest electrical machine; one sufficient to throw thespark three inches has been found to evolve a quantity of…

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