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" ... terminated by cups of mercury, are connected by a copper wire not more than a foot in length, no spark is perceived when the connection is either formed or broken ; but if a wire thirty or forty feet long be used instead of the short wire, though... "
The Annals of Electricity Magnetism and Chemistry and Guardian of ... - Page 281
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Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at ..., Volume 32

American Philosophical Society - 1893 - 806 pages
...feet long be used (instead of the short wire) though no spark will be perceptible when the connection is made, yet when it is broken by drawing one end...from its cup of mercury, a vivid spark is produced." " The effect appears somewhat increased by coiling the wire into a helix ; it seems also to depend...
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Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington: 1870-1871, Volumes 1-2

Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - 1874 - 640 pages
...feet long be used (instead of the short wire), though no spark will be perceptible when the connection is made, yet when it is broken by drawing one end...from its cup of mercury, a vivid spark is produced. : . . The effect appears somewhat increased by coiling the wire into a helix: it seems also to depend...
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A Memorial of Joseph Henry

1880 - 552 pages
...feet long be used (instead of the short wire), though no spark will be perceptible when the connection is made, yet when it is broken by drawing one end...from its cup of mercury, a vivid spark is produced. - - - The effect appears somewhat increased by coiling the wire into a helix : it seems also to depend...
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 21

1881 - 856 pages
...feet long be used (instead of the short wire), though no spark will be perceptible when the connection is made, yet when it is broken by drawing one end...from Its cup of mercury, a vivid spark is produced. - - - The effect appears somewhat increased by coiling the wire into a helix : it seems also to depend...
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 21

Smithsonian Institution - 1881 - 834 pages
...feet long be used (instead of the short wire), though no spark will be perceptible when the connection is made, yet when it is broken by drawing one end...from its cup of mercury, a vivid spark is produced. - - - The effect appears somewhat increased by coiling the wire into a helix : it seems also to depend...
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 21

Smithsonian Institution - 1881 - 850 pages
...feet long be used (instead of the short wire), though no spark will be perceptible when the connection is made, yet when it is broken by drawing one end...from its cup of mercury, a vivid spark is produced. - - - The effect appears somewhat increased by coiling the wire into a helix: it seems also to depend...
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 20

1881 - 826 pages
...(instead of the short wire), though no spark will be perceptible when the connection is made, uhcn it is broken by drawing one end of the wire from its cup of mercury, a vivid spark is produced. . . . The effect appears somewhat increased by coiling the wire into a helix: it Bcems also to depend...
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Scientific Writings of Joseph Henry, Volume 30, Issue 1

Joseph Henry - 1886 - 552 pages
...feet long be used instead of the short wire, though no spark will be perceptible when the connection is made, yet when it is broken by drawing one end...battery be very intense, a spark will be given by the short wire ; in this case it is only necessary to wait a few minutes until the action partially...
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 30

1887 - 1124 pages
...feet long be used instead of the short wire, though no spark will be perceptible when the connection is made, yet when it is broken by drawing one end...battery be very intense, a spark will be given by the short wire ; in this case it is only necessary to wait a few minutes until the action partially...
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The Discovery of Induced Electric Currents: Memoirs, by Joseph Henry

Joseph Henry, Michael Faraday - 1900 - 140 pages
...feet long be used instead of the short wire, though no spark will be perceptible when the connection is made, yet when it is broken by drawing one end...a few minutes until the action partially subsides, and until no more sparks are given from the wire; if the long wire be now substituted a spark will...
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