Experimental Researches in Electricity (Classic Reprint) Book

WHEN from an Alpine height the eye of the climber ranges over the mountains, he finds that for the most part they resolve themselves into distinct groups, each consisting of a dominant mass surrounded by peaks of lesser elevation. The power which lifted the mightier eminences, in nearly all cases lifted others to an almost equal height. And so it is with the discoveries of Faraday. As a general rule, the dominant result does not stand alone, but forms the culmi- nating point of a vast and varied mass of inquiry. In this way, round about his great discovery of magneto-electric induction, other weighty labours group themselves. His investigations on the extra current; on the polar and other condition of diamagnetic bodies; on lines of magnetic force, their definite character and distribution; on the employment of the induced magneto-electric current as a measure and test of magnetic action; on the revulsive phenomena of the magnetic field, are all, notwithstanding the diversity of title, researches in the domain of magneto-electric induction.Table of Contents I. i. IDENTITY OF ELECTRICITIES FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES . I i. Voltaic Electricity ...... 3 ii. Ordinary Electricity ..... 7 iii. Magneto-Electricity ...... 22 iv. Thermo-Electricity ...... 24 v. Animal Electricity ...... 24 2. RELATION BY MEASURE OF COMMON AND VOLTAIC ELECTRICITY . . . . . . . .27 II. 3. NEW LAW OF ELECTRIC CONDUCTION .... 32 4. ON CONDUCTING POWER GENERALLY .... 41 III. 5. ELECTRO-CHEMICAL DECOMPOSITION .... 47 If i- New Conditions of Electro-chemical DecRead More