Practical electricity, and galvanism, containing a series of experiments. Calculated for the use of those who are desirous of becoming acquainted with that branch of science ... / By John Cuthbertson.

  • Cuthbertson, John.
Date:
1807
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Credit: Practical electricity, and galvanism, containing a series of experiments. Calculated for the use of those who are desirous of becoming acquainted with that branch of science ... / By John Cuthbertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eeived it most advisable to adopt the present method, viz. that of leaving out what I thought could be best spared. With regard to the plate electrical machine I shall here say but little, its superiority being universally allowed by every person conversant in the science, who has witnessed its effects. Some of the experiments in this work will shew that they are such as have never been attempted with cylindrical machines, or with those of any other construction. See PART VI and Vil. _ And fora farther account see Carpue’s Introduc- tion to Electricity and Galvanism, published 1803, by A. Phillips, Great Russel Street, Covent Garcen. : > With regard to the theory, which I haga ad- vanced in Part I, it will be found to coincide with that of Franklin; but whether or no it is the true theory I do not pretend to determine. [can only ‘say that all the experiments with which I am acquainted can be more easily ex- plained by it than-by any other. : I have endeavoured to arrange and methodize the experiments so as to render them easy and