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 417
two disks or condensing plates, as shown inFigs. 273 and 274. The inferior disk is attached perma-nently to the stem, t, which supports the strips of gold-leaf.The superior disk has a glass handle by which it can beremoved at pleasure. The two disks are of brass, coated Bow connected? Hoxv charged?… … Fig. 273. Fig. 274. bnt being very thin, the condensing power is much aug-mented. Use of the Condensing Electrometer. 3f)8. To use the condensing electrometer for detectingsmall quantities of electricity, we place the upper disk uponthe lower one, as shown in Fig. 273, then using the lowerdisk as a…
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