The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, Volumen8Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... given the name Electricity ; and out of the study of these and kindred phenomena arose the science of electricity , of which it is the purpose of the present article to give a brief outline . undressing , emitted occasionally sudden ...
... given the name Electricity ; and out of the study of these and kindred phenomena arose the science of electricity , of which it is the purpose of the present article to give a brief outline . undressing , emitted occasionally sudden ...
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... given by Fechner in his Maasbestim mungen über die Galvanische Kette ( 1831 ) . The law of the fall of potential was verified by the elder Kohlrausch , who employed in his researches Volta's condenser and Dell- mann's electrometer ...
... given by Fechner in his Maasbestim mungen über die Galvanische Kette ( 1831 ) . The law of the fall of potential was verified by the elder Kohlrausch , who employed in his researches Volta's condenser and Dell- mann's electrometer ...
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... given names - e.g . , the Ohm , the with similar electrification to a piece of sealing - wax rubbed Volt , the Farad , & c . These have become current to a great with woollen is said to be resinously or negatively electri- extent among ...
... given names - e.g . , the Ohm , the with similar electrification to a piece of sealing - wax rubbed Volt , the Farad , & c . These have become current to a great with woollen is said to be resinously or negatively electri- extent among ...
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... given sensibility , then we might specify as a unit of electrical quantity the quantity of electricity on or in a brass ball of given size , which will produce with a given cage a certain given deflection of the electrometer . To make ...
... given sensibility , then we might specify as a unit of electrical quantity the quantity of electricity on or in a brass ball of given size , which will produce with a given cage a certain given deflection of the electrometer . To make ...
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... given of one such : — attrac- method lation . mally on the end of a small shellac needle , which was hung Laws of up , so as to be horizontal , on a fibre of raw silk attached tra to a horizontal scale . An insulated conducting globe ...
... given of one such : — attrac- method lation . mally on the end of a small shellac needle , which was hung Laws of up , so as to be horizontal , on a fibre of raw silk attached tra to a horizontal scale . An insulated conducting globe ...
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