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" I went into the cube and lived in it, and using lighted candles, electrometers, and all other tests of electrical states,. I could not find the least influence upon them, or indication of anything particular given by them, though all the time the outside... "
Series 1-14 [Phil. trans., 1831-38] 1839 - Page 366
by Michael Faraday - 1839
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A Manual of Electricity: Electricity and galvanism

Henry Minchin Noad - 1855 - 570 pages
...Electrometers, and all other tests of electrical states, / could not find the least influence upon them, though all the time the outside of the cube...every part of its outer surface. The conclusion I bave come to is, that non-conductors, as well as con- * ductors, have never yet had an absolute and...
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Manual of Electricity: Electricity and Galvanism

Henry Minchin Noad - 1855 - 574 pages
...Electrometers, and all other tests of electrical states, / could not find the least influence upon them, though all the time the outside of the cube...sparks and brushes were darting off from every part of ift outer surface. The conclusion I have come to is, that non-conductors, as well as conductors, have...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 47

Henry Allon - 1868 - 672 pages
...find the least influ' ence upon them, or indications of anything particular given ' by them, although all the time the outside of the cube was ' powerfully charged, and largo sparks were darting off from ' every part of its outer surface.' AVe had intended to picture...
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elementary treatise on nautral philosophy

a. privat deschanel - 1873 - 1076 pages
...but a gold-leaf electrometer within showed no effect. He says, "I went into the cube and lived in it, using lighted candles, electrometers, and all other...darting off from every part of its outer surface/' Fig. 344 B.—Experiment with Four Ice-pails. of inverse squares. For if the conductor be a sphere...
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Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Volume 4

Institution of Electrical Engineers - 1875 - 492 pages
...the least influence upon them, or indication of anything particular given by them, though all this time the outside of the cube was powerfully charged,...darting off from every part of its outer surface."* It is not necessary that the region should be entirely closed in by the metallic conductor ; it is...
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Journal, Volume 4

1875 - 498 pages
...the least influence upon them, or indication of anything particular given by them, though all this time the outside of the cube was powerfully charged,...darting off from every part of its outer surface."* It is not necessary that the region should be entirely closed in * Experimental Researches in Electricity,...
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Electricity and magnetism

Augustin Privat-Deschanel - 1881 - 302 pages
...but a gold-leaf electrometer within showed no effect. He says, "I went into the cube and lived in it, using lighted candles, electrometers, and all other...darting off from every part of its outer surface." The fact that electricity resides only on the external surface of a conductor, combined with the fact that...
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An Elementary Treatise on Electricity

James Clerk Maxwell - 1881 - 254 pages
...tests of electrical states, I could not find the least influence upon them, or indication of anything 1 particular given by them, though all the time the...powerfully charged and large sparks and brushes were starting off from every part of its outer surface.' It appears, therefore, that the most sudden changes...
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Elementary Lessons in Electricity & Magnetism

Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1881 - 474 pages
...each way, built of wood, covered with tinfoil, insulated, and charged with a powerful machine, so that large sparks and brushes were darting off from every part of its outer surface. Into this cube Faraday took his most delicate electroscopes ; but once within he failed to detect the...
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Natural Philosophy

Isaac Sharpless, George Morris Philips - 1883 - 376 pages
...connected with a powerful machine; and then (in his own words) "I went into the cube and lived in it, using lighted candles, electrometers, and all other...darting off from every part of its outer surface." So persistently does the charge keep to the outside that if a charged conductor be turned inside out...
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