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An essay on electricity, explaining the principles of that useful science : and describing the instruments, contrived either to illustrate the theory, or render the practice entertaining : illustrated with six plates : to which [...]. London : printed by J. Dillon, 1799

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PDF Front cover
PDF Frontispiece.
PDF Title page
PDF IIIPreface.
PDF IXTable of contents
PDF XIReferences to the plates.
PDF 1Chap. I. Containing a summary view of the general principles of electricity, or a series of introductory propositions and experiments.
PDF 30Chap. II. Of electricity in general [...].
PDF 55Chap. III. Of the electrical machine, with directions for exciting it.
PDF 90Chap. IV. Of the Franklinian hypothesis. Objections to this hypothesis. Eele's system preferable to the Franklinian.
PDF 133Chap. V. On the method of using the electrical apparatus, and a description of the principal articles thereof.
PDF 155Chap. VI. Entertaining experiments by the attraction and repulsion of light bodies, with some remarks on electrical attraction.
PDF 166Chap. VII. The properties of electric attraction and repulsion, illustrated by experiments on light bodies.
PDF 187Chap. VIII. Of the electric spark.
PDF 209Chap. IX. Of electrified points.
PDF 223Chap. X. Of the Leyden phial, or jar.
PDF 270Chap. XI. Of the electrical battery, and the lateral explosion of charged jars.
PDF 294Chap. XIII. Of the electric light in vacuo.
PDF 321Chap. XIV. On the influence of pointed conductors for buildings.
PDF 351Chap. XV. To charge a plate of air.
PDF 357Chap. XVI. Of the electrophorus, and Mr. Bennet's experiments therewith.
PDF 368Chap. XVII. Of Mr. Volta's condensing plates [...]; and of rendering very sensible very small degrees of natural and artificial electricity.
PDF 390Chap. XVIII. Of the methods of manifesting the presence, and ascertaining the quality of natural or artificial electricity.
PDF 415Chap. XIX. Of atmospherical electricity.
PDF 483Chap. XX. On medical electricity.
PDF 507A letter to Mr. George Adams, on the subject of medical electricity; from Mr. John Birch, Surgeon.
PDF 559Addenda, by the editor.
PDF 585Index.
PDF 594Errata.
PDF [Plates I - V.]
PDF Back cover