Excerpt from Practical Observations on the Generation of Statical Electricity by the Electrical Machine Having experienced, at different times, some difficulty in caus ing an abundant and uniform supply of electricity to be generated, by the apparatus employed, when the state of the air and other circumstances appeared entirely favorable, sufficient inducement was offered to devote a few leisure moments to the study of the causes of failure.
In completing a course of experiments with this object in View, results have been obtained in the excitation of statical electricity, deemed of sufficient value to merit attention. The invention of electrical machines being of such long standing, and the subject having received the attention ofso many eminent persons, the wri ter, with some hesitation, ventures to suggest ideas derived from his own observations. The improvements proposed, however, being few in number and of simple application, he has thought proper to state them, allowing each one who may feel interested, an opportunity of satisfying himself of their utility.
Rosanna - Commencing with the rubber of the machine, as the supposed principal source of failure, it was proposed to asoer tain, first, its mode of action second, that substance which would be most efficient in its action.
In regard to its mode of action, the questions which presented themselves, were - does it produce electricity by friction, by chemical action, or by friction and chemical action?
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