 | Henry Cavendish - 1879 - 588 pages
...Trantactiont of the Royal Society for 1771, Vol. LXI. pp. 584—677. [Read Dec. 19, 1771 and Jan. 9, 1772.] ^AN ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL . PHENOMENA OF ELECTRICITY, BY MEANS OF AN ELASTIC FLUID. 1] SINCE I first wrote the following paper, I find that this way of accounting for the phenomena of... | |
 | Henry Cavendish - 1879 - 564 pages
...the Royal Society for 1771, Vol. LXI. pp. 584—677. [Jiead Dec. 19, 1771 and Jan. 9, 1772.] M. 1 If AN ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL PHENOMENA OF ELECTRICITY, BY MEANS OF AN ELASTIC FLUID. 1] SlNCE I first wrote the following paper, I find that this way of accounting for the phsenomena of... | |
 | Henry Cavendish, James Clerk Maxwell - 1879 - 538 pages
...affecting the determination of the dip, together with measurements of the elasticity of steel and of glass. AN ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL PHENOMENA OF ELECTRICITY, BY MEANS OF AN ELASTIC FLUID*. HY THE HONOURABLE HENRY CAVENDISH, FRS * From the Philosophical Transactiont of the Royal Society for... | |
 | Lewis Campbell, William Garnett - 1882 - 810 pages
...Greek and Trojan " on that occasion at Glenlair. and great uncle to the present Duke of Devonshire. He published only two papers relating to electricity— ' ' An Attempt to Explain some of the Phenomena of Electricity by means of an Elastic Fluid" (Phil. Trans. 1771) and " An Account of some... | |
 | Ágost Heller - 1884 - 778 pages
...Die Schriften Cavendish's sind die folgenden: Experiments on factitious air (Phil. Trans. 1766). — An attempt to explain some of the principal phenomena of electricity by means of an elastic fluid. (Ib. 1771.) — An account of the meteorol. instruments, used at the R. Soe. house. (Ib. 1776.) —... | |
 | 1901 - 624 pages
...authority of his day, he published only two papers, 'Of the Electrical Property of the Torpedo' (1776) and 'An Attempt to explain some of the principal Phenomena of Electricity by means of an Elastic Fluid' (1771-72). Yet he left behind him some twenty packets of manuscript on mathematical and experimental... | |
 | Pratt Institute. Free Library - 1906 - 40 pages
...Electrical researches, 1771-1781. 1879. Macmillan, $4.50 621.302— C3 Contains his papers entitled "An attempt to explain some of the principal phenomena of electricity by means of an elastic fluid," and "Some attempts to imitate the effects of the torpedo by electricity" ; also much material from... | |
 | American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Library - 1909 - 496 pages
...Early use of a lightning conductor for the protection of ships. 2462. Cavendish, Henry. (1731-1810.) An attempt to explain some of the principal phenomena of electricity by means of an elastic fluid. (Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc., Vol. 61, pp. 584-677.) 1 plate. 4to. London, 1771-1772 Views on electrical... | |
 | Edmund Taylor Whittaker - 1910 - 502 pages
...had assisted in Watson's experiments of 1747. t In 1771 Cavendish}; presented to the Royal Society an " Attempt to explain some of the principal phenomena of Electricity, by means of an elastic fluid." The hypothesis •In 1769 Dr. John Robison (b. 1739, d. 1805), of Edinburgh, endeavoured to determine... | |
 | Edward Bennett, Harold Marion Crothers - 1926 - 690 pages
...and Present State of Electricity with Original Experiments, London, 1767, p. 711. 2 CAVENDISH HENRY: An Attempt to Explain Some of the Principal Phenomena...Electricity, by Means of an Elastic Fluid, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc., 1771. Fig. 42), whose particles repel with a force inversely as the square of the distance.... | |
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Jan. 9, 1772.] ^AN ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL . PHENOMENA OF ELECTRICITY, BY MEANS OF AN ELASTIC FLUID. 
