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an elementary treatise on electricity

by Maxwell James Clerk

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An Elementary Treatise on Electricity is a research book written by James Clerk Maxwell. The lecture notes made by Clerk Maxwell and given by him to members of the Cavendish Laboratory are in the basis of the book. There you can find the description of the experiments that show the most important facts about electric charge as a quantity which can be measured, also conclusions from these facts and the detail description of electricity as a phenomenon. The book contains 53 figures and 6 plates, as well as articles from Clerk Maxwell´s landmark book Electricity and Magnetism.

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...mineral products, and several substances have been known by the name of magnesia besides that which modern chemists know by that name. The loadstone, the touchstone, and meerschaum, seem however to have been the principal substances which were called Magnesian and magnetic, and these are generally understood to be Lydian stones. 3. ] ELECTRIFICATION OF A CONDUCTOR. 3 It will be found that the tray is now electrified. Shreds of paper or gold-leaf placed below it will fly up to it, and if the knuckle is brought near the edge of the tray a spark will pass between the tray and the knuckle, a peculiar sensation will be felt, and the tray will no longer exhibit electrical phenomena. It is then said to be discharged. If a metal rod, held in the hand, be brought near the tray the phenomena will be nearly the same. The spark will be seen and the tray will be discharged, but the sensation will be slightly different. If, however, instead of a metal rod or wire, a glass rod, or stick of...