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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    [ s ] _ originally-eledtrics. I could fire them, I fay, at all times; though not equally eafy, when the weather was moift. VII. I di{cover’d with this machine, and communicated to feveral mem¬ bers of this fociety, feveral of the ex¬ periments faid to be fir ft made by M, le Mounter at Parts, before the letter communicating them was received by our moft worthy prefident from thence. VIII. I order’d another machine to be made for a friend of mine, which carried a globe of fixteen inches dia¬ meter. I united the power of this large globe with that of three of the others before mention’d, and found the ftrokes from the excited Bon¬ ded! rics not encreafed according to my expectation. In two experiments indeed, where the di/lipation of the whole power of thefe globes was vifible as fail as it was excited, the effect of this additional globe was very confiderable. The firft was, B 3 when