 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 628 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Natural history - 1821 - 592 pages
...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 - Statesmen - 1837 - 552 pages
...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 - Learned institutions and societies - 1893 - 806 pages
...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 - United States - 1840 - 558 pages
...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 - Learned institutions and societies - 1894 - 810 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Electricity - 1894 - 240 pages
...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,... 
