The description and use of Nairne's patent electrical machine / with the addition of some philosophical experiments, and medical observations.

  • Nairne, Edward, 1726-1806.
Date:
1793
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Credit: The description and use of Nairne's patent electrical machine / with the addition of some philosophical experiments, and medical observations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    condudorG. The jar being charged, on ap-. plying any part of the body to the con- dudor R, a denfe ftream of eledricity will go from that part of the body to the con- dudor R. If the denfe dream is to be given by the condudor G to any part of the body, the chain that is hung on the wire of the jar in the condudor R, is to be taken from thence, and hung in like manner from the wire of the jar, that is in the condudor G, to the table; the chain b is to be removed to the knob H of the condudor R ; the jar being charged, the condudor G will give a denfe ftream of eledricity to any part of the body prefented to it. If the chain, inftead of touching the table, be hung, by means of its two rings, from the ball of one jar to the ball of the other, the ftream will in like circumftances be ex- ceedingly more pungent. This denfe elec- tricity may be received from or given to any part of the body, by means of the apparatus already