 the existence of a principal discharge in one direction and then several reflex actions backward and forward each more feeble than the preceding, until equilibrium is attained. All the facts are shown to be in accordance with this hypothesis, and a ready...  Electricity One Hundred Years Ago & To-day ... - Page 64by Edwin James Houston - 1894 - 199 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Learned institutions and societies - 1841 - 284 pages
...transfer of an imponderable fluid from one side of the jar to the other; the phenomena require us to admit the existence of a principal discharge in one direction,...forward, each more feeble than the preceding, until the equilibrium is obtained. All the facts are shown to be in accordance with this hypothesis, and... | |
 | United States. Congress - Electromagnetism - 1880 - 554 pages
...represented by the single transfer from one ßide of the jar to the other: the phenomena require us to admit the existence of a principal discharge in one direction,...forward, each more feeble than the preceding, until the equilibrium is obtained."* In every case therefore of the electrostatic discharge, the testing... | |
 | William Bower Taylor - 1880 - 324 pages
...represented by the single transfer from one side of the jar to the other: the phenomena require us to admit the existence of a principal discharge in one direction,...forward, each more feeble than the preceding, until the equilibrium is obtained."* In every case therefore of the electrostatic discharge, the testing... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - Chemistry - 1881 - 850 pages
...represented by the single transfer from one side of the jar to the other: the phenomena require us to admit the existence of a principal discharge in one direction,...forward, each more feeble than the preceding, until the equilibrium is obtained."* In every case therefore of the electrostatic discharge, the testing... | |
 | William Jones Rhees - Biography & Autobiography - 1881 - 872 pages
...represented by the single transfer from one ¿side of the jar to the other: the phenomena require us to admit the •existence of a principal discharge in one direction, and then several i-eflcx actions backward and forward, each more feeble than the pre•Cîeding, until the equilibrium... | |
 | Joseph Henry - Meteorology - 1886 - 552 pages
...transfer of an imponderable fluid from one side of the jar to the other; the phenomena require us to admit the existence of a principal discharge in one direction, and then several reflex actions bad-ward and forward, each more feeble than the preceding, until the equilibrium is obtained. All the... | |
 | Science - 1887 - 1124 pages
...transfer of an imponderable fluid from one side of the jar to the other; the phenomena require us to admit the existence of a principal discharge in one direction,...forward, each more feeble than the preceding, until the equilibrium is obtained. All the facts are shown to be in accordance with this hypothesis, and... | |
 | Science - 1889 - 524 pages
...discharge-current was not always in the right direction. Henry stated that " the phenomenon requires us to admit the existence of a principal discharge in one direction,...more feeble than the preceding, until equilibrium is obtained." Later, Thomson worked out a mathematical theory of the subject, which agreed with Henry's... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1889 - 692 pages
...backward and forward each more feeble than tin- ¡in-i-iil'ntij, until the equilibrium is obtained. All the facts are shown to be in accordance with this hypothesis, aud a ready explanation is afforded by it of a number of phenomena, which are to be found in the older... | |
 | Sir John Ambrose Fleming - Electric currents - 1890 - 510 pages
...transfer of imponderable fluid from one side of the jar to the other ; the phenomena require us to admit the existence of a principal discharge in one direction...phenomena which are to be found in the older works on electricity, but which have until this time remained unexplained." A little later on in the Paper... | |
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