Volume 1

A manual of electricity, magnetism, and meteorology / [D. Lardner].

  • Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859
Date:
1841-1844
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A manual of electricity, magnetism, and meteorology / [D. Lardner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (48.) (49.) (50.). (51.) (52.) (53.) (54.) (55.) (56.) (57.) (58.) (60.) (61.) (62.) (63.) (64.) (65.) (66.) (67.) (68.) (69.) (70.) (71.) (72.) (73.) (74.) (75.) (76.) (77.) ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS. xi Page Early conjectures of the Identity of Electricity and Lightning 37 Dr. WALL’s Allusion to it = = - - 37 Remarkable Guess of Mr. GREY = - = - 38 Anticipation of their Identity by NoLLET -« - 38 Character of Franklin’s Mind. His Desire for hehe APOE tions of scientific Principles 5 - 40 His first Suggestions of the probable Identity of Lightning ape Electricity - - - 2 - 42 Analogies supporting these Suggestions - - ° 43 Discovers the Property of Points - - = 44 Ingenious Experiment to show their probable Use for ies off Electricity from the Clouds - = 44 Describes the Methods by which Lightning might possibly be drawn from the Clouds . - - - 46 Makes his celebrated Experiment with a Kite, and draws down Lightning along its Cord - = - = 48 The same Result obtained, according to his Directions, ty M. DaLipaRD, near Paris,a Month earlier - - 50 Franklin’s Right to the Discovery of the Identity of Tighten and Electricity denied by M. Arago - = =08 Vindication of Franklin - - - - - 52 Franklin proposes pointed Conductors for the Protection of Buildings from Lightning - - - - 56 Disputes in England, whether blunt Conductors would not be better - ” - - - = 56 Blunt Conductors placed on the royal Palace anh - 57 Continues his Experiments'on Lightning - - =, 05, Finds that the Electricity of the Clouds 1s sometimes positive and sometimes negative - = - - - 58 Is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society - . - 59 Death of RICHMANN. - - - - =Tnog) Franklin’s Experiments repeated in England by Canton, WIL- SON, and BEvIs - = - - - 60 Researches of BECCARIA » - - - 61 His Observations of the Circumstances attending a Thunder- storm - - - - C = 61 FRANKLIN shows the magnetic Effect of Electricity - 64& BeccariA shows that the Polarity of the Needle depends on the Direction of the Current through it - - - 65 Remarkable Anticipation, by Brccaria, of Ampére’s Theory of Terrestrial Magnetism = ° - - 66 Beccaria explains the Cause of Thunder - : - 67 Observation of BouGcuER confirming this - 2 - 68 Researches of LEMonnigER on Atmospheric Electricity - 68 Shows the diurnal Variation of the Electricity of the Air - 68 Brccarta determines the Law of these Changes - - 68 CANTON discovers that the same Body may be electrified with either Kind of Electricity ° - - - 69 Discovers the Use of Amalgam on the Cushion ° - 69