 | Arthur Young - Agriculture - 1792 - 586 pages
...cafe, at the top of which is an electrometer, a fmall fine pith ball; a wire connects v/ith a fmiilar cylinder and electrometer in a diftant apartment;...in the effect, a correfpondence might be carried on at any diftance: within and without a befieged town, for inftance ; or for a purpofe much more worthy,... | |
 | Arthur Young - Agriculture - 1793 - 710 pages
...cafe, at the top of whkh is an eleclrometer, a fmall fine pith ball; a wire connects with a fimilar cylinder and electrometer in a diftant apartment ;...in the effect, a correfpondence might be carried on at any. diftance : within and without a beficgcd town, f&r inftance j or for a purpofe much more worthy,... | |
 | Arthur Young - Agriculture - 1794 - 652 pages
...electrometer, a fmall fine pith ball ¿ a wire connects with a iîmilar cylinder and electrometer in a dirbmt apartment; and his wife, by remarking the -correfponding...motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in theeffeil, a correfpondence might be carried on at any diftance : within and without a befieged town,... | |
 | England - 1855 - 782 pages
...similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment ; and his wife, by marking the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate,...length of the wire makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence might be carried on at any distance — within and without a besieged town, for instance... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - Boys - 1833 - 502 pages
...electromoter in a distant apartment, and his wife by remarking the corresponding motions of the balls, writes down the words they indicate ; from which it appears that he has formed an Alphabet qf Motion. As the length of the conducting wire makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1838 - 520 pages
...similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartmen t . and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate, from which it appears he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect,... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1838 - 506 pages
...cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment ; and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motionsof the ball, writes down the words they indicate, from which it appears he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect,... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - Agriculture - 1893 - 1182 pages
...similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment ; and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate, from which, it appears, he has formed an alphabet of motions." The length of the wire was found to make no difference. At Charenton,... | |
 | Science - 1842 - 516 pages
...electrometer in a distant apartment, and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motions of the balls, writes down the words they indicate ; from which it appears that he lias formed an Alphabet of Motion. As the length of the conducting wire makes no difference in the... | |
 | Science - 1846 - 438 pages
...similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment ; and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate...length of the wire makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence might be carried on at any distance. Whatever the use may be, the invention is beautiful."... | |
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... he takes it with him into a room, and turns a machine enclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment; and his wife, by... 
