An essay on electricity. Explaining the principles of that useful science : and describing the instruments, contrived either to illustrate the theory, or render the practice of entertaining / by George Adams.

  • Adams, George, 1750-1795.
Date:
1792
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Credit: An essay on electricity. Explaining the principles of that useful science : and describing the instruments, contrived either to illustrate the theory, or render the practice of entertaining / by George Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Chow) TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAP. | TagRe be Summary View of HACECEY II. Of the Difiin@ion between Electrics and Non-Electrics, and of the An- alogy between Electricity andFire 32 » Il]. Of the Eleétrical Machine; with | - Directions for exciting jt = — $9 IV. Of the Franklinian Hypothefis. — Objections thereto. —Of .Feles’s Syftem 90 ¥. Of the Electrical Apparatus _ 137 VI. Entertaining Experiments by the Attraction and Repulfion of light Bodies 157 VII. The Properties of Blediric Attrac- tion and Repulfion =_ 169 VII. Of the Electric Spark — Igi IX. Of Electrified Points . ——- = 21§ X. Of the Leyden Phial = 230 XI. Ofthe Electrical Battery — 269 XII. Of the Diffufion and Subdivifion of Fluids by Electricity ~— 288