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Identifier: howtomakeuseelec00treb (find matches)
Title: How to make and use electricity ..
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Trebel, George. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Electricity
Publisher: New York, F. Tousey
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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i0?edin conne^n with the same maybe performed with the electrophorus. Before taking up current SLhSSSi w?ff 1S °ne T0re amusinS experiment which may beperformed with any instrument Prepare an insulated stool (Pig. 3.) bv placing a souare hoard on four dry and clean glass tumblers used aslies^Let a ver- ™ T-m2 V Zm?% J°b.n>stand on this stoofand lett per-son James, strike John a few times with a cats fur (Borrow orine theTnuX^Ta ZZ moonllght ni^t). Then lit Jam^sDnng tne Knuckle of a finger near to some part of Johns nor- USE ELECTRICITY. 15 who is to perform the experiment take off his shoes and put ona pair of dry woolen socks. Now let him scrape both feet vio-lently on the carpet, sliding one foot after the other (imitatingroller skating), and after this has been done for a few minutesapproach a knuckle of the hand to a gas jet, and the gas willimmediately catch fire. A woolen carpet is necessary in thisexperiment.I have performed this experiment several times, and it never
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fails to leave an impression of the supernatural upon the mindsof those who are not acquainted with the laws of electric phe-nomena. It may be well to remark that this experiment cannotbe performed by every person. We now come to that portion of electrical science which hasbeen so remarkably developed within the last few years—name-ly, current electricity, or electricity as generated by batteries ormagnetism. In the frictional, electricity is generated by meansof friction between two substances; in tne current it is gener-ated by means of a chemical decomposition of metals. Batteries are vessels containing a chemical solution in whichtwo metals, or a metal and a vegetable substance, are immersed.In current electricity also we find two kinds of fluid—thepositive and the negative. To demonstrate this chemicalaction, take a strip of sheet copper and a strip of sheet zinc,each about six inches long and two inches wide; take alsoa tumbler two-thirds full of water, and to it add about t

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