 I endeavoured upon this law to construct an instrument which should measure out the electricity passing through it, and which, being interposed in the course of the current used in any particular experiment, should serve at pleasure, either as a comparative...  Cyclopadic Science Simplified - Page 314by John Henry Pepper - 1869 - 685 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 772 pages
...quantity of electricity," and following this thought constructed an instrument which, "being interposed in the course of the current, used in any particular...or as a positive measurer of this subtile agent." Again, having repeated all his earlier experiments with the most varying conditions, he wrote "variations... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier Dampier - 1924 - 312 pages
...instrument which should measure out the electricity passing through it, and which, being interposed in the course of the current used in any particular experiment,...effect or as a positive measurer of this subtile agent. I have already said, when engaged in reducing common and voltaic electricity to one standard of measurement,... | |
 | Morris H. Shamos - 1987 - 384 pages
...instrument which should measure out the electricity passing through it, and which, heing interposed in the course of the current used in any particular experiment,...either as a comparative standard of effect, or as a positii-e measurer of this suhtile agent." 706. There is no suhstance hetter fitted, under ordinary... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier - 2003 - 312 pages
...instrument which should measure out the electricity passing through it, and which, being interposed in the course of the current used in any particular experiment,...circumstances, to be the indicating body in such an instrument as water; for it is decomposed with facility when rendered a better conductor by the addition of acids... | |
 | 1834 - 1276 pages
...instrument which should measure out the electricity passing through it, and which, being interposed in the course of the current used in any particular experiment,...effect, or as a positive measurer of this subtile agent. 706. There is no substance better fitted, under ordinary circumstances, to be the indicating body in... | |
 | 578 pages
...instrument which should measure out the electricity passing through it, and which, being interposed hi the course of the current used in any particular experiment, should serve at pleasure, <'>i her as a comparative standard of effect, or as a positive measurer of this subtile agent. 706.... | |
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