Johnson's natural philosophy and key to philosophical charts : illustrated with 500 cuts; being reduced photographic copies of all the diagrams contained in the author's philosophical series of indestructible school charts ; for the use of schools and families (1878)
the rod P, and the lowerend communicates with the earth by thechain T. If tlie strip is unbroken, the fluidpasses from the machine to the earth with-out emitting sparks; but if the strip bebroken, the fluid, in passing over thebreak, produces a continuous light. Andif several breaks be made, so as… … EFFECTS OF ACCUMULATED ELECTRICITY. 704. The effects of the electric discharge.—If the passageof electricity through bodies is impeded by their bad-conducting qual-ity, or by want of proper dimensions, a powerful electric discharge,under such circumstances, will produce various effects, which may…
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