Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

Experiments and Observations Tending to Illustrate the Nature and Properties of Electricity In One Letter to Martin Folkes, Esq; President, and Two to the Royal Society

Watson, William, Sir, 1715-1787· 3 chapters· 8,977 words

_The following Sheets were not intended to be made publick, but as part of the Philosophical Transactions. As those Works are printed in the order of Time they are read; these Observations, communicated to the_ ROYAL SOCIETY _at different Meetings, would, upon that Account, ha...

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IF an electrical Cake is dipp'd in Water, it is thereby made a Conductor of Electricity, the Water hanging about it transmitting the electrical Effluvia in such a manner, that a...

1. Part 1

_The following Sheets were not intended to be made publick, but as part of the Philosophical Transactions. As those Works are printed in the order of Time they are read; these O...

3. Part 3

THIS rectilineal Direction is observable only as far as the Electricity can penetrate through unexcited Originally-electrics, and those perfectly dry; nor is it at all material,...