Introductory course of natural philosophy for the use of schools and academies. Ed. from Ganot's popular physics. By William G. Peck (1869)
Ganot, Adolphe, 1804-1887, Peck, William Guy, 1820-1892 · New York A.S. Barnes · leaf 386
The worst conductors? (366.1 How are non-conductors electrified? Can con-ductors be electrified by friction? Hcnt? How are bodies electrified by contact? FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF ELECTRICITY. 383 Accumulation of Electricity on the Surface of Bodies. 367. Experiment shows that when a body is… … Fig. 251. Of the various experiments intended to show this fact, weselect one that was first performed by Coulomb. Hemounted a copper sphere upon an insulating rod of glass, asshown in Fig. 251. He then provided two hollow hemis-pheres also of copper, Avhich, when put together, exactly ( 367.)…
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