 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 834 pages
...immediately they were attracted by the wire, and adhered to it in considerable quantities, forming a mass round it ten or twelve times the thickness of the wire : on breaking the communication they instantly fell off, proving that the magnetic effect depended... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 598 pages
...immediately they were attracted by the wire, and adhered to it in considerable quantities, forming a mass round it ten or twelve times the thickness of the wire : on breaking the communication^ they instantly fell off, proving that the magnetic effect entirely... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - Chemistry - 1831 - 582 pages
...immediately they were attracted by the wire, and adhered to it in considerable quantities, forming a mass round it ten or twelve times the thickness of the wire : on breaking the communication ^ they instantly fell off, proving that the magnetic effect entirely... | |
 | Physics - 1832 - 640 pages
...sensible attraction for iron filings, and that it will hold them suspended like an artificial masrnet, as long as the electric current circulates through...the following experiments, which were devised by Mr. Watkins, and which he was so obliging as to show us. A copper wire of considerable thickness is extended... | |
 | Physics - 1832 - 642 pages
...current circulates through the wire ; but the moment the galvanic circuit is interrupted, the aclion ceases, and the filings immediately fall off. In Sir...the following experiments, which were devised by Mr. Walkins, and which he was so obliging as to show us. A copper wire of considerable thickness is extended... | |
 | 1832 - 650 pages
...galvanic circuit is interrupted, the action ceases, and the filings immediately fall off. In Sir H. Davy s experiments, the filings adhered to the wire connecting...the following experiments, which were devised by Mr. Watkins, and which he was so obliging as to show us. A copper wire of considerable thickness is extended... | |
 | Edwin James Houston - Electricity - 1894 - 240 pages
...immediately they were attracted by the wire, and adhered to it in considerable quantities, forming a mass round it ten or twelve times the thickness of the wire : on breaking the communication, they instantly fell off, proving that the magnetic effect depended... | |
 | Edwin James Houston - Electric industries - 1905 - 678 pages
...immediately they were attracted by the wire, and adhered to it in considerable quantities, forming a mass round it ten or twelve times the thickness of the wire: on breaking the communication, they instantly fell off, proving that the magnetic effect depended entirely... | |
 | 1922 - 736 pages
...power of the electric current on steel and iron needles or filings. In Davy's experiments, it is said, the filings adhered to the wire connecting the poles...in such considerable quantities as to form a mass around it ten or twelve times the thickness of the wire (Phil. Trans, for 1821, p. 9; Annales de Chimie... | |
 | Electric power - 1922 - 734 pages
...power of the electric current on steel and iron needles or filings. In Davy's experiments, it is said, the filings adhered to the wire connecting the poles...in such considerable quantities as to form a mass around it ten or twelve times the thickness of the wire (Phil. Trans, for 1821, p. 9; Annales de Chimie... | |
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I threw some iron filings on a paper, and brought them near the communicating wire, when immediately they were attracted by the wire, and adhered to it in considerable quantities, forming a mass round it ten or twelve times the thickness of the wire:... 
