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... ELECTRICITY . ELEC- TRICAL MACHINES III . ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTS IV . CONDENSATION OF ELECTRICITY V. VI . 460 471 480 · 490 VARIOUS EFFECTS OF ACCUMULATED ELECTRICITY ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY . THUNDER AND LIGHTNING 498 VII . ELECTRICITY ...
... ELECTRICITY . ELEC- TRICAL MACHINES III . ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTS IV . CONDENSATION OF ELECTRICITY V. VI . 460 471 480 · 490 VARIOUS EFFECTS OF ACCUMULATED ELECTRICITY ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY . THUNDER AND LIGHTNING 498 VII . ELECTRICITY ...
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... electricity yields . Figure 339 represents the use of the photo - electric microscope . On the floor is a series of vessels which serve for the disengage . ment of electricity , and which we shall afterwards describe as the electric ...
... electricity yields . Figure 339 represents the use of the photo - electric microscope . On the floor is a series of vessels which serve for the disengage . ment of electricity , and which we shall afterwards describe as the electric ...
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Adolphe Ganot. -386 ] Photo - electric Microscope . 411 two stout copper wires to two rods of charcoal contained in the box B. Thus charged with electricity , these carbons become heated to incandescence , and emit an extremely bright ...
Adolphe Ganot. -386 ] Photo - electric Microscope . 411 two stout copper wires to two rods of charcoal contained in the box B. Thus charged with electricity , these carbons become heated to incandescence , and emit an extremely bright ...
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Adolphe Ganot. -410 ] Frictional Electricity . 447 BOOK VIII . FRICTIONAL ELECTRICITY . CHAPTER I. FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES . 410. Electricity . Its nature . — Electricity is a powerful physi- cal agent which manifests itself mainly by ...
Adolphe Ganot. -410 ] Frictional Electricity . 447 BOOK VIII . FRICTIONAL ELECTRICITY . CHAPTER I. FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES . 410. Electricity . Its nature . — Electricity is a powerful physi- cal agent which manifests itself mainly by ...
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... electricity , and the derivation of which has Fig . 369 . already been given . However slow the progress of the science of electricity in ancient times and in the Middle Ages , its pro ... Electricity . 449 448 [ 410 Frictional Electricity .
... electricity , and the derivation of which has Fig . 369 . already been given . However slow the progress of the science of electricity in ancient times and in the Middle Ages , its pro ... Electricity . 449 448 [ 410 Frictional Electricity .
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Página 59 - Pressure exerted anywhere upon a mass of liquid is transmitted undiminished in all directions, and acts with the same force on all equal surfaces and in a direction at right angles to those surfaces. To get a clearer idea of the truth of this principle, let us conceive a
Página 90 - The unit of the measure of capacity is the litre or cubic decimetre. The unit of weight is the gramme, which is the weight of a cubic centimetre of distilled water at 4° C. The kilogramme contains 1,000 grammes, or is the weight of a decimetre of distilled water at 4° C. The gramme equals 15-443 grains.
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Página 115 - It is in England commonly called Boyle's law, and, on the Continent, Mariotte's law. It is as follows :— ' The temperature remaining the same, the -volume of a given quantity of gas is inversely as the pressure which it bears? This law
Página 306 - calculated that if the total quantity of heat which the earth receives from the sun in the course of a year were employed to melt ice, it would be capable of melting a layer of ice all round the earth of 35 yards in thickness.
Página 537 - propounded a most ingenious theory, based on the analogy which exists between solenoids and magnets, by which all magnetic phenomena may be referred to electrodynamical principles. Instead of attributing magnetic phenomena to the existence of two fluids, Ampere assumed that each individual molecule of a magnetic substance is traversed by a closed electric current.
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Página 307 - Faraday calculated that the average amount of heat radiated in a day on each acre of ground in the latitude of London is equal to that which would be produced by the combustion of sixty sacks of coal.