A manual of electricity, magnetism and meteorology (1844)
Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859, Walker, Charles Vincent, 1812-1882 · London Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans · leaf 257
shouldwe exclude from these illustrations the repeated frac-ture of Leyden jars. Fig. 106. and 106. are draw,ings from an actual fracture, as it appeared before andafter the tinfoil was removed; the white surface at aand b is paper. VII. The effects of lightning con-ductors are generally shown by… … Fig. 106 of continuity in the wire by the reversal of a smallblock of wood. A discharge passes tranquilly in theone case, but drives out the wood with an explosion, CHAP. V. DANGER OF LIGHTNING. 221 in the other. Again, a break of continuity is allowedto occur among some naphtha or resin, placed…
Atmospheric electricity · Electricity -- Early works to 1850 · Magnetism
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