This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...who tries the experiment may simply stand on the floor, but the glass vessel must be held by the same person who with the other hand receives the spark." Musschenbroeck says also that he would not go through such an experience again for the crown of France. Germany took a part in the development of the new science by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...who tries the experiment may simply stand on the floor, but the glass vessel must be held by the same person who with the other hand receives the spark." Musschenbroeck says also that he would not go through such an experience again for the crown of France. Germany took a part in the development of the new science by devising improvements on the electrical machine. The progress of any natural science is, we shall constantly see, greatly dependent upon the perfection of the appliances by which its phenomena are studied. Conductors were provided by which the electricity might be gathered from the revolving globe of glass, and a cushion was substituted for the hand. About 1750, cylinder machines were constructed in England and in Holland; but soon after this, machines upon an entirely new plan were made by Ramsden, who substituted a circular plate of glass for the globe or cylinder; and the most commonly met with electrical machine at the present day is that of Ramsden. The form of this, represented in Fig. 157, is too well known to require description. In the earlier globe machines the Kt conductor" was simply a metallic bar or tube F.g. is7.-T.iE Plate Electrical suspended by silk cords, with one Machine. of the ends nearly touching the re volving globe. This arrangement is shown in Fig. 154. William Watson, who wrote on electricity about the middle of the eighteenth century, gives in his work the view of the machine shown in Fig. 158, which represents, he says, an electrical machine much used in Holland, and especially in Amsterdam. This may be compared with the machine constructed many years afterwards by Nairne, a view of which is given in Fig. 159. c is a cylinder of glass, D and D' are hollow metallic cylinders with spherical ends, and each is...
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