A manual of electricity, magnetism and meteorology (1844)
Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859, Walker, Charles Vincent, 1812-1882 · London Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans · leaf 111
thepurpose. When the machine is worked the electricitywith which the upper disc will be charged will attractthe light figures placed on the lower disc, which willleap upwards, and after touching the upper disc, andbeing electrified, will be repelled to the lower disc;and this jumping action of the… … be suspended from the prime conductor of a machine,and let it have a capillary tube, C D, of the siphon CHAP. XIV. ATTRACTION AND REPULSION. 75 form immersed in it; or let it have a capillary tube in-serted in the bottom, the bore of the tube being sosmall that water cannot escape from it by its…
Atmospheric electricity · Electricity -- Early works to 1850 · Magnetism
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