Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Colophon
- ERRATA
- A POPULAR VIEW OF THE PHENOMENA OF THE ATMOSPHERE
- PREFACE
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I ON ELECTRICAL PHENOMENA, AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES ESSENTIAL TO THEIR PRODUCTION
- CHAP. I Nature of Electrical Action, and Sources of Electrical Excitation.— Positive and Negative Electricity
- CHAP. II Of Conductors and Nonconductors of Electricity, and of the Electrical Apparatus
- CHAP. III Experiments with the Electrical Machine.— Theory of its Action.— Phenomena of Attraction and Recession
- CHAP. IV On the Phenomena of Electric Light
- CHAP. V On the Leyden Jar, and the Nature of Electrical Influence
- PART II OF THE MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL AGENCIES OF ELECTRICITY
- PART III NATURAL AGENCIES OF ELECTRICITY
- PART IV VOLTAIC ELECTRICITY
- APPENDIX VARIOUS ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. —EXPERIMENTS ON THE ELECTRICAL EFFECTS EVINCED AFTER THE CONTACT OF DIFFERENT BODIES
- Plate Section
CHAP. I - Nature of Electrical Action, and Sources of Electrical Excitation.— Positive and Negative Electricity
from PART I - ON ELECTRICAL PHENOMENA, AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES ESSENTIAL TO THEIR PRODUCTION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2015
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Colophon
- ERRATA
- A POPULAR VIEW OF THE PHENOMENA OF THE ATMOSPHERE
- PREFACE
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I ON ELECTRICAL PHENOMENA, AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES ESSENTIAL TO THEIR PRODUCTION
- CHAP. I Nature of Electrical Action, and Sources of Electrical Excitation.— Positive and Negative Electricity
- CHAP. II Of Conductors and Nonconductors of Electricity, and of the Electrical Apparatus
- CHAP. III Experiments with the Electrical Machine.— Theory of its Action.— Phenomena of Attraction and Recession
- CHAP. IV On the Phenomena of Electric Light
- CHAP. V On the Leyden Jar, and the Nature of Electrical Influence
- PART II OF THE MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL AGENCIES OF ELECTRICITY
- PART III NATURAL AGENCIES OF ELECTRICITY
- PART IV VOLTAIC ELECTRICITY
- APPENDIX VARIOUS ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. —EXPERIMENTS ON THE ELECTRICAL EFFECTS EVINCED AFTER THE CONTACT OF DIFFERENT BODIES
- Plate Section
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- Elements of Electricity and Electro-Chemistry , pp. 21 - 35Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015First published in: 1814