A sequel to the Experiments and observations tending to illustrate the nature and properties of electricity : wherein it is presumed, by a series of experiments expresly for that purpose, that the source of the electrical power, and its manner of acting are demonstrated. Addressed to the Royal Society / by William Watson.

  • Watson, William, Sir, 1715-1787.
Date:
1746
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Credit: A sequel to the Experiments and observations tending to illustrate the nature and properties of electricity : wherein it is presumed, by a series of experiments expresly for that purpose, that the source of the electrical power, and its manner of acting are demonstrated. Addressed to the Royal Society / by William Watson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 1° ] dinary accumulation of the ele&rical power in a vial of water ; firlt difcover- ed by profeffor Mufchenbroek, a man born to penetrate into the deeped: my- deries of Philofophy: and I hope I fhall dand excufed, if I enter into a minute detail of the circumdances re¬ lating thereto. The experiment is, that a vial of water is fufpended to a gun- barrel by a wire let down a few inches into the water through the cork; and this gun-barrel, fufpended in filk lines, is ap¬ plied fo near an excited glafs globe, that iome metallic fringes inferted into the gun-barrel touch the globe in motion. Under thefe circumdancesaman grafps the vial with one hand and touches the gun-barrel with a linger of the other. Upon which he receives a violent fhock through both his arms, efpecially at his elbows and wrids, and a-crofs his- bread. This experiment fucceeds bed, ceteris paribus, i. When the air is drv. 2. When