- EAN13
- 9782381119526
- Éditeur
- Human and Literature Publishing
- Date de publication
- 13/02/2024
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
Electricity : from Thales to Faraday
Ernest A. le Sueur, John Tyndall
Human and Literature Publishing
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Aide EAN13 : 9782381119526
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It is so common a notion nowadays that electricity had its birth and rise in
the nineteenth century that it gives one a strange mental sensation to
contemplate the fact that all the myriads of commercial applications that have
of late years been developed in this field might have been made by the Chinese
or the ancient Egyptians, so far as the potentiality of Nature for developing
electrical phenomena is concerned. The writer used to know a delightful old
gentleman in Vermont who once referred, as to a well-known fact, to Edison's
having invented electricity. It is astonishing how closely his state of mind
typifies that of a great many people.
In the form of the lightning, the aurora, and the shock of the electric eel or
torpedo, electrical manifestations have been known ever since man commenced to
observe those phenomena, but the fossil resin amber was the substance which
eventually gave its name to the now tremendous agency. This material was
observed, many centuries before our era, to possess the property of attracting
light bodies to itself when rubbed with wool, and, being called electron by
the Greeks, transmitted its name to the property or force which it thus
brought into evidence. The fact is mentioned as early as 600 B. C, by Thales
of Miletus, although he does not transmit to us the name of the original
observer of the phenomenon. Homely as was the experiment, it marked a
beginning in electrical research.
the nineteenth century that it gives one a strange mental sensation to
contemplate the fact that all the myriads of commercial applications that have
of late years been developed in this field might have been made by the Chinese
or the ancient Egyptians, so far as the potentiality of Nature for developing
electrical phenomena is concerned. The writer used to know a delightful old
gentleman in Vermont who once referred, as to a well-known fact, to Edison's
having invented electricity. It is astonishing how closely his state of mind
typifies that of a great many people.
In the form of the lightning, the aurora, and the shock of the electric eel or
torpedo, electrical manifestations have been known ever since man commenced to
observe those phenomena, but the fossil resin amber was the substance which
eventually gave its name to the now tremendous agency. This material was
observed, many centuries before our era, to possess the property of attracting
light bodies to itself when rubbed with wool, and, being called electron by
the Greeks, transmitted its name to the property or force which it thus
brought into evidence. The fact is mentioned as early as 600 B. C, by Thales
of Miletus, although he does not transmit to us the name of the original
observer of the phenomenon. Homely as was the experiment, it marked a
beginning in electrical research.
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