Journal of the Franklin Institute; devoted to science and the mechanic arts (1826)
Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) · Oxford, Eng. [etc.] Pergamon Press [etc.] · leaf 596
On the Theory of Electricity in Submarine Telegraphy. 137 The explanation of its failure, if we arc guided by the first princi-ples of the science, appears to me to be very simple, and I expect notonly to make it plain that no advantage is to be obtained by theadoption of this method, but that it… … Let two long gutta percha covered wires, (Fig. 7,) buried in theearth, be connected, one with the zinc pole and the other with thpcopper pole of a battery, and let the farther ends of each of thesewires be hermetically sealed. The earth, from its mass, being a per-fect conductor, its action, it is…
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