 | Thomas Thomson - 1813 - 514 pages
...the most elaborate of all hi* investigations. His first paper is entitled, An Attempt to explain soms of the Principal Phenomena of Electricity by Means of an Elastic Fluid. (Phil. Trans. 1771j vol. Ixi. p. 5S4.) This paper is very long ; and contains a very complete mathematical theory... | |
 | John Aikin - 1815 - 506 pages
...two in number, but are the result of very elaborate investigation. The first, in 1 77 1, is entitled "An Attempt to explain some of the principal Phenomena of Electricity by means of an elastic Fluid." The second, in 1776, consists of the relation of a set of experiments to determine the nature of the... | |
 | 1833 - 874 pages
...all its fires burning in the winter, appearing as pure as the freshest breezes of the country. In " An Attempt to explain some of the principal Phenomena...of Electricity by means of an Elastic Fluid," Phil. Tratu., 1771, p. 684, his theory of electricity agrees wkh that which had been published a few years... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 260 pages
...the brilliant discoveries in Galvanism. He wrote two papers on this subject, respectively entitled ' An Attempt to explain some of the Principal Phenomena of Electricity, by means of an Elastic Fluid,' and ' An Account of a Set of Experiments to determine the Nature of the Shock communicated by the Torpedo.'... | |
 | Repertorium - 1841 - 784 pages
...theorie de l'electricit* d'apre les principes de Mr. Aepinas. Paris 1787. 8. üb. v. Mnrhard Cavendish, an attempt to explain some of the principal phenomena of electricity by means of an elastic fluid. Ph. Tr. 1771. p. 584. Coulomb, sur l'électricité et le magnétisme. Mein, de Par. 1789. p. 455. Coulomb,... | |
 | George Wilson - 1851 - 506 pages
...needed to neutralise the fixed alkali. • Phil. Trans. 1788, pp. 180, 181. t Phit. Tram. 1788, p. 178. An Attempt to explain some of the principal Phenomena of Electricity, by Means of an Elastic Fluid. Read to the Royal Society, Dec. 19, 1771, and Jan. 9, 1772.* It will suffice to give the title of this... | |
 | Thomas Young - 1855 - 804 pages
...confirmed by synthetical experiments, in which the supercarbonate is formed and remains in solution. 3. An Attempt to explain some of the principal Phenomena...by means of an Elastic Fluid. (Phil. Trans. 1771, p. 584.) Our author's theory of electricity agrees with that which had been published a few years before... | |
 | Englishmen - 1863 - 912 pages
...the brilliant discoveries in Galvanism. He wrote two papers on this subject, respectively entitled ' An Attempt to explain some of the Principal Phenomena of Electricity, by means of an Elastic Fluid,' and ' An Account of a Set of Experiments to determine the Nature of the Shock communicated by the Torpedo.'... | |
 | Johann Christian Poggendorff - 1863 - 818 pages
...Oct. 10, Nizza, gest. 1810, Febr. 24, London. Experiments on factitious air (Phil. Transact. 1 766) . An attempt to explain some of the principal phenomena of electricity by means of an elastic fluid (Ib. 1771). An account of the meteorolog. instruments, used at the R. Society's house (Ib. 1776). On... | |
 | Isaac Todhunter - 1873 - 520 pages
...In the Philosophical Transactions, Vol. LxI., for 1771, published in 1772, we have a memoir entitled An attempt to explain some of the principal Ph<enomena of Electricity, by Means of an elastic Fluid : By the Honourable Henry Cavendish, FRS The memoir occupies pages 584.. .677 of th£ volume. This... | |
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Jan. 9, 1772.] ^AN ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL . PHENOMENA OF ELECTRICITY, BY MEANS OF AN ELASTIC FLUID. 
