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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    hundred and fortieth of an inch thick, heated it red hot fo that the furface of the wire was fcorified its whole length; it did not melt it into pieces, but fhortened it one twentieth of an inch. EXPERIMENT LVIII. A charge of forty-eight feet to fix grains, and fent through three inches of Jteel wire one hundred and fortieth of an inch thick, melted it into fine globules. REMARK XVII. Hence it appears that a piece of copper wire, the fame fize and length, will bear twice the charge that a Jieel wire will, [fee Experi- ment 54.] EXPERIMENT LIX. A repetition of the laft experiment having every circumffance alike, and the effe6t was the fame: this repetition was only to afcertain the fa£l more fully.