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 397
ats skin, as shown inFig. 256. This develops negative electricity in the resin.We then apply the disk, holding it by its handle. The plateof resin acts upon the disk by induction, drawing the posi-tive fluid to the tin foil on its lower face, and repelling thenegative fluid to the foil on the upper… … Fig. 257. FiK. 253. If the disk be raised from the resinous plate by its handle,and touched with the knuckle, as shown in Fig. 258, a spark Explain its action. INDUCTION. 395 will pass which is due to the negative electricity, passingfrom the body to the positively electrified plate. If now we…
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