...discourse, Light and Electricity, how manifestly their effects depend upon the molecular oiganization of the bodies subjected to their influence. Carbon,...transformed by heat, transmits electricity but stops light. Leonard Euler alone conceived that light may be regarded as a movement or undulation of ordinary matter...

...effect on bodies with which they come in contact depends on the molecular structure of those bodies. ' Carbon, in the form of diamond, transmits light, but...transmits electricity, but stops light. All solid bodies (approximately speaking) which transmit light freely, or are transparent, are non-conductors of electricity,...

...discourse, Light and Electricity, how manifestly their effects depend upon the molecular organization of the bodies subjected to their influence. Carbon...transformed by heat, transmits electricity but stops light. Leonard Euler alone conceived that light may be regarded as a movement or undulation of ordinary matter;...

...organization of the bodies subjected to their influence. Carbon in the *orm of diamond transmits light bat stops electricity. Carbon in the form Of coke or graphite,...transformed by heat, transmits electricity but stops light. Leonard Euler alone conceived that light may be regarded as a movement or undulation of ordinary matter;...

...until the present century, to have attracted little attention: thus, to take the two agents selected for this evening's discourse, Light and Electricity,...to it; all the best conductors of electricity, as black carbon and the metals, are opaque or non-conductors of light.* Bodies which have a peculiar but...

...molecular states of carbon. In the form of diamond, carbon transmits light, but stops electricity; while in the form of coke or graphite, into which the diamond may be transformed by heat, the same carbon transmits electricity, but stops light. Some of the theories of light were referred...