Lectures on electricity / by James Ferguson, F.R.S.

  • James Ferguson
Date:
1825
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Lectures on electricity / by James Ferguson, F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C O N T E N T S. Amber, electrical properties of, 5. Amalgam, how to make, 23. Animated spider, 52- Attraction, electric, 26- Attraction and repulsion illus- trated, 69. Atmospherical electricity, 98. Aurora Borealis, 36. Battery, electric, 70—74, 88. Beatification, diadem of, 41. Buildings, howto preserve them from lightning, 25. Brookes, Mr. cracked jars em- ployed by, 71. Card, how to perforate, 45. Chemical effects of electricity, 92. Chime, electrical, 13, 29. Charging and discharging jars, 42. Cohesion, electrical, 8. Clock, electrical, 19, 34. Cuthbertson’s electrometer des- cribed, 90. Cushion, its use, 11, 80. Cures by electricity, 61, 68. Cup, water electrified in, 33. Diadem of beatification, 41. Du Fay, hypothesis of, 5. Earthquake, electrical, 78. Electrical machine, 11, 80, 81. Electrometers, how to con- struct, 81. Electricity, origin of the word defined, 5. Electrics, what, 7. heatlier electrified, 33. hire, electric, what, 6, Flame, electrical, 40. Fly, electrical, 28. Flashes of electrical light, how to produce, 69. Gilbert, Dr. the first who pos- sessed any electrical appara- tus, 5. Gold leaf, how to strike into glass, 48. Gunpowder, how to fire, 76. Guns, liable to attract lightning, 47. Henley’s 91. universal discharger. Hole through a card, how to strike, 45. Human body, sparks from, 38. Jallabert, Mr. cure of palsy by, 61. Jones, Messrs, their improved apparatus, 11. Lane's discharging electrome- ter, 90. Leyden'jar, 14. Lind, Dr. James, conducting rod by, 46. Luminous glass, 36. Machine, electrical, examined, 11,80,81. plate, mode of con- structing, 80. Magical picture, 17, 51. Metal rods, their use, 53. Minus, its meaning with re- ference to electricity explain- ed, 8. Medical electricity, 60. Mill, electrical, 21.
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