Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1

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Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867

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E-text prepared by Paul Murray, Richard Prairie, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr.

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English

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QC: Science: Physics

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Electricity -- Early works to 1850

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14986

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February 9, 2005

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by Paul Murray, Richard Prairie, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr.
2. 2.Experimental Researches In Electricity.
3. 3.Preface.
4. 4.Contents
5. 5.Experimental Researches In Electricity.
6. 6.First Series. — § 1. Induction of Electric Currents. — § 2. Evolution of Electricity from Magnetism. — § 3. New Electrical State or Condition of Matter. 6 — § 4. Explication of Arago's Magnetic Phenomena.
7. 7.The Bakerian Lecture. — § 5. Terrestrial Magneto-electric Induction. — § 6. General remarks and illustrations of the Force and Direction of Magneto-electric Induction.
8. 8.Third Series. — § 7. Identity of Electricities derived from different sources. — I. Voltaic Electricity. — II. Ordinary Electricity. — III. Magneto-Electricity. — IV. Thermo-Electricity. — V. Animal Electricity. — § 8. Relation by Measure of common and voltaic Electricity. 65
9. 9.Fourth Series. — § 9. On a new Law of Electric Conduction. 71 — § 10. On Conducting Power generally. 75
10. 10.Fifth Series. — § 11. On Electro-chemical Decomposition. 82 — ¶ i. New conditions of Electro-chemical Decomposition. — ¶ ii. Influence of Water in Electro-chemical Decomposition. — ¶ iii. Theory of Electro-chemical Decomposition.
11. 11.Sixth Series.
12. 12.Seventh Series. — Preliminary. — ¶ iv. On some general conditions of Electro-chemical Decomposition. — ¶ v. On a new measure of Volta-electricity. — ¶ vi. On the primary or secondary character of the bodies evolved at the Electrodes. — ¶ vii. On the definite nature and extent of Electro-chemical Decomposition. — § 13. On the absolute quantity of Electricity associated with the particles or atoms of Matter.
13. 13.Eighth Series. — §14. On the Electricity of the Voltaic Pile; its source, quantity, intensity, and general characters. — ¶ i. On simple Voltaic Circles. — ¶ ii. On the Intensity necessary for Electrolyzation. — ¶ iii. On associated Voltaic Circles, or the Voltaic Battery. — ¶ iv. On the Resistance of an Electrolyte to Electrolytic Action, and on Interpositions. — ¶ v. General Remarks on the active Voltaic Battery.
14. 14.Ninth Series. — § 15. On the influence by induction of an Electric Current on itself:—and on the inductive action of Electric Currents generally.
15. 15.Tenth Series. — § 16. On an improved form of the Voltaic Battery. — § 17. Some practical results respecting the construction and use of the Voltaic Battery (1034. &c.).
16. 16.Eleventh Series. — ¶ i. Induction an action of contiguous particles. — ¶ ii. On the absolute charge of matter. — ¶ iii. Electrometer and inductive apparatus employed. — ¶ iv. Induction in curved lines. — ¶ v. On specific induction, or specific inductive capacity. — ¶ vi. General results as to induction. — Supplementary Note to Experimental Researches in Electricity.—Eleventh Series.
17. 17.Twelfth Series. — ¶ vii. Conduction, or conductive discharge. — ¶ viii. Electrolytic discharge. — ¶ ix. Disruptive discharge and insulation. — The electric spark or flash. — The electrical brush. — Difference of discharge at the positive and negative conducting surfaces.
18. 18.Thirteenth Series. — ¶ ix. Disruptive discharge (continued). — Glow discharge. — Dark discharge. — ¶ x. Convection, or carrying discharge. — ¶ xi. Relation of a vacuum to electrical phenomena.
19. 19.§ 19. Nature of the electric current.
20. 20.Fourteenth Series. — § 20. Nature of the electric force or forces. — § 21. Relation of the electric and magnetic forces. — § 22. Note on electrical excitation.
21. 21.Index.
22. 22.Notes

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