A manual of electricity : including galvanism, magnetism, diamagnetism, electro-dynamics, magneto-electricity, and the electric telegraph. / By Henry M. Noad.

  • Noad, Henry Minchin, 1815-1877.
Date:
1855
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Credit: A manual of electricity : including galvanism, magnetism, diamagnetism, electro-dynamics, magneto-electricity, and the electric telegraph. / By Henry M. Noad. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. STATICAL OR FRICTIONAL ELECTRICITY. Page Historical sketcli—Observations of the ancient philosophers—Re- searches of Gilbert, Boyle, Otto Guericke, Newton, Hawksbee, Wall, Gray, Wheeler, Dufaye, Boze, Winkler, Muschenbroek, Cuneus, Kleist, Watson, Bevis, Wilson, Franklin, Dalibard, Canton, Beccaria, (Epinus, Wilke, Lymner, Cavendish, Coulomb, La Place, Biot, Poisson, Lavoisier, Yolta, Saussure 1 CHAPTER II. PHENOMENA OP ERICTIONAL ELECTRICITY. Attraction and repulsion—Positive and negative conditions—Con- ductors and non-conductors—Electroscopes and Electrometers—Pyro- Electricity of minerals—Laws of Electrical attraction and repulsion 16 CHAPTER III PHENOMENA OP FRICTIONAL ELECTRICITY (Continued). Induction, Distribution, Condensers, and Multipliers . . . .43 CHAPTER IV. THE ELECTRICAL MACHINE. Various forms of the glass Electrical machine—the steam Electric machine—Various forms of the disruptive discharge . . .68 CHAPTER V. ACCUMULATED ELECTRICITY. The Leyden phial and battery—Laws of accumulated Electricity— Specific inductive capacity—Lateral discharge—Physiological and chemical effects of frictional Electricity 108