 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 628 sider
...that are rubbed; do in the instant of the friction attract the electrical fire, and therefore take it from the thing rubbing. The same parts immediately,...Mr. Watson has shown* ; you may also accumulate or substract it, on or from any body, as you connect that body with the rub. her, or with the receiver,... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 588 sider
...attract the electrical fire, and therefore take it from the thing rubhing. The same parts immediately, a, the friction on them ceases, are disposed to give...Thus you may circulate it, as Mr. Watson has shown * ; yon may also accumulate or substract it, on or from any body, as you connect that body with the... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 592 sider
...that are rubbed, do in the instant of the friction attract the electrical fire, and therefore take it from the thing rubbing. The same parts immediately,...may also accumulate or subtract it on or from any body, as you connect that body with the rubber, or with the receiver, the communication with the common... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 552 sider
...and therefore take it from the thing rubbing ; the same parts immediately, as the friction upon theni ceases, are disposed to give the fire they have received...has shown ; you may also accumulate or subtract it, upon or from any body, as you connect that body with the rubber, or with the receiver, the communication... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1893 - 806 sider
...fire and therefore take it from the thing rubbing ; the same parts, immediately as the friction upon them ceases, are disposed to give the fire they have received to any body that has less." In 1745, Kleist,* and, in 1746, Cuneus.f had observed the phenomena of electrical condensation, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 558 sider
...fire, and therefore take it from the thing rubbing ; the same parts immediately, as the friction upon them ceases, are disposed to give the fire they have...has shown ; you may also accumulate or subtract it, upon or from any body, as you connect that body with the rubber, or with the receiver, the communication... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1894 - 810 sider
...fire and therefore take it from the thing rubbing ; the same parts, immediately as the friction upon them ceases, are disposed to give the fire they have received to any body that has less." In 1745, Kleist,* and, in 1746, Cuneus,f had observed the phenomena of electrical condensation, and... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 876 sider
...fire, and therefore take it from the thing rubbing ; the same parts immediately as the friction upon them ceases, are disposed to give the fire they have received to any body that has less." It is probably owing to his clear and just explanations that this theory was considered entirely the... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 sider
...fire, and therefore take it from the thing rubbing; the same parts immediately, as the friction upon them ceases, are disposed to give the fire they have received to any body that has less. HIS INVENTION OF THE LIGHTNING ROD. [Opinions . . . arising from Experiments and Observations made... | |
 | Edwin James Houston - 1894 - 240 sider
...fire, and therefore take it from the thing rubbing ; the same parts immediately, as the friction upon them ceases, are disposed to give the fire they have...less. Thus you may circulate it, as Mr. Watson has showu ; you may also accumulate or subtract it, upon or from any body, as you connect that body with... | |
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To electrize plus or minus, no more needs to be known than this, that the parts of the tube or sphere that are rubbed, do, in the instant of the friction, attract the electrical fire, and therefore take it from the thing rubbing; the same parts immediately,... 
