 ... is taken away, it throws out a pencil of flame so long, that with this burning machine in my hand, I have taken above sixty steps in walking about my room. When it is electrified strongly, I can take it into another room, and there fire spirits of...  The Panorama of Science, Or Guide to Knowledge - Page 189by George Grant - 1852Full view - About this book
 | James Smith (author of the Panorama of science and art.) - Industrial arts - 1859 - 924 pages
...take it into another room, and there fire spirits of wine with it. If, while it is electrifying, I put my finger, or a piece of gold which I hold in...I present this phial and nail to a tin tube, which 1 have fifteen feet long, nothing but experience can make a person believe how strongly it is electrified.... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - Electricity - 1867 - 542 pages
...can take it into another room, and then fire spirits of wine with it. If, while it is electrifying, I put my finger or a piece of gold which I hold in my...receive a shock which stuns my arms and shoulders.' Muachenbroek in a letter to Reaumur describing the effect produced on himself by taking the shock from... | |
 | John George Wood - Amusements - 1875 - 926 pages
...wine, be put into it, the experiment succeeds the better. FIG. 9. " If, while it is electrifying, I put my finger, or a piece of gold which I hold in my hand, to the nail, I receive a shock wiiich siuns my arms and shoulders." Great excitement was shown everywhere at this discovery, and experiments... | |
 | Science - 1876 - 802 pages
...phial in his hand and to ignite spirits of wine with it. " If," said he, " while it is electrifying I put my finger, *or a piece of gold which I hold in...receive a shock which stuns my arms and shoulders." In the following year Cunseus, of Leyden, made substantially the Fio. 83. Fio. Fio. 23. same discovery.... | |
 | John Tyndall - Electricity - 1877 - 156 pages
...phial in his hand and to ignite spirits of wine with it. 'If,' said he, ' while it is electrifying I put my finger, or a piece of gold which I hold in...receive a shock which stuns my arms and shoulders.' In the following year Ciinaaus of Leyden made substantially the same discovery. It caused great wonder... | |
 | John Joseph Fahie - Telegraph - 1884 - 596 pages
...take it into another room, and there fire spirits of wine with it. " If, whilst it is electrifying, I put my finger, or a piece of gold which I hold in...a man, placed upon electrics, is electrified much more strongly by this means than in the common way. When I present this phial and nail to a tin tube... | |
 | Park Benjamin - Electric power - 1886 - 422 pages
...can take it into another room, and then fire spirits of wine with it. If while it is electrifying I put my finger or a piece of gold which I hold in my...receive a shock which stuns my arms and shoulders." This was the first announcement of the possibility of accumulating electricity. In the following year... | |
 | John George Wood - Acrostics - 1891 - 840 pages
...FIG. 9. " If, while it is electrifying, I put my finger, or a piece of gold which 1 hold in my hind, to the nail, I receive a shock which stuns my arms and shoulders." Great excitement was shown everywhere at this discovery, and experiments were carried on in London... | |
 | Edwin James Houston - Electric industries - 1905 - 678 pages
...scientific friend in Berlin, dated November 4, 1745, he says of the bottle: "If while it is electrified I put my finger or a piece of gold which I hold in my...receive a shock which stuns my arms and shoulders." The honor of the invention of the Leyden jar is Cuneus and ascribed by some to Cuneus, of Leyden, a... | |
 | 1906 - 604 pages
...another room and there fire spirits of wine with it. If, while it is electrifying, I put my finger on a piece of gold, which I hold in my hand to the nail,...receive a shock which stuns my arms and shoulders. It is rather amusing, in the light of what we know now of the effects of even a severe shock from a... | |
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