Miscellaneous experiments and remarks on electricity, the air-pump, and the barometer : with the description of an electrometer of a new construction ... / by A. Brook, of Norwich.

  • Brook, Abraham
Date:
1797
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Credit: Miscellaneous experiments and remarks on electricity, the air-pump, and the barometer : with the description of an electrometer of a new construction ... / by A. Brook, of Norwich. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Edit. 1774] Mr. Golden has a very ftrong expreflion, that both its lides are alike at the time it is charging, in his remarks on the Abbe Nollet’s Letters to B. Franklin, Efq. where the Abbe fays 4 that he can electrfe a hundred 4 men, jlanding on wax, if they hold hands, and 4 if one of them touch one of thefe furfaces (the 4 exterior J with the end of his finger’ Mr. Col- den then immediately fays, 4 This I know he 4 can, while the phial is charging, hut after 4 the phial is charged I am as certain he cannot/ And I cannot fee how any one can draw fuch fatisfadtory conclufions from any part of Dr. Franklin’s writings, as what thofe Gentlemen, already recited, as well as various others, feem to have done, on this fubjedt, for the con- trary appears plainly to be the fadt. In making eledlrical experiments, and in particular thofe in which the Leyden Phial is concerned (a number of which together com- pofe moft electrical batteries) a method to preferve the bottles, or jars, from being Itruck through by the eledtric charge, is very defirable;