This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...be unable to detect this intimate relation which exists between electric and vital action, until we know whether Electricity is only a particular condition of what we call matter, or whether it arises from particular vibrations of the ether, or, in fine, whether like gravity it must be regarded as a primitive and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...be unable to detect this intimate relation which exists between electric and vital action, until we know whether Electricity is only a particular condition of what we call matter, or whether it arises from particular vibrations of the ether, or, in fine, whether like gravity it must be regarded as a primitive and specific force of nature. So long as we are without an exact idea of what Electricity is, the different modes of its development will, of course, be incomprehensible to us, and we shall scarcely be able to say anything upon the cause of animal Electricity, even though anatomists and physiologists should have very carefully studied the structure of the fish, and should have made us most intimately acquainted with all its fibres and its most minute nerves." (413) Electricity of Effluent Steam The first account we have of an observation on the Electricity of a jet of steam, while issuing from a boiler, is contained in a letter addressed by H. G. Armstrong, Esq., to Professor Faraday, and published in 17th vol. of the L. and E. Phil. See a Translation of his paper in Proceedings of London Elec. Soc., p. 133. Mag., with the date of Oct. 14th, 1840. It appears that the phenomenon was first noticed by the engine-man entrusted with the care of a steam engine at Seghill, about six miles from Newcastle: it happened that the cement, by which the safety valve was secured to the boiler, had a crack in it, and through this fissure a copious horizontal jet of steam continually issued. Soon after this took place, the engine-man having one of his hands accidentally immersed in the issuing steam, presented the other to the, lever of the valve, with the view of adjusting the weight, when he was greatly surprised by the appearance of a brilliant spark, which pass...
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