In our chapter on the Leyden Jar we assumed that those of our readers who were likely to experiment in frictional electricity would be in possession of an electrical machine to start with.
To prove this he poured some water into a glass flask, put it into communication with the prime conductor of an electrical machine, and for fear of accidents judiciously handed it over to Cuneus to hold.
Your alarm clock had just the right size wheel in it," went on the odd student, "so I took it out, and made my electrical machine.
He's making some kind of an electrical machine, Perkins said, and he keeps buzzing away at it half the night.
One day Cuneus, a pupil of Muschenbroeck, professor in the University of Leyden, was trying to charge some water in a glass bottle by connecting it with a chain to the sparkling knob of an electrical machine.
These tiny sparks from the electrophorus, or the bigger discharges of an electrical machine, can be stored in a simple apparatus called a Leyden jar, which was discovered by accident.
There are, however, batteries known as "secondary," which store the current as the Leyden jar stores up the discharge from an electrical machine.
If an insulated conductor, connected with the positive conductor of an electrical machine, have a metal rod 0.
To charge the jar, the outer coating is connected with the earth, and the knob put in contact with the conductor of an electrical machine.
The Leyden jar is capable of receiving a much higher charge than can ordinarily be given to the conductor of an electrical machine.
We may overlook some of the material circumstances in an experiment with an electrical machine; but we shall, at the worst, be better acquainted with them than with those of a thunder-storm.
Around the prime conductors of an electrical machine, the atmosphere to some distance, or any conducting surface suspended in that atmosphere, is found to be in an electric condition opposite to that of the prime conductor itself.
Before Old Walker cleared out of Eton, the boy had become the owner of a solar microscope, and bought an electrical machine of Old Walker's assistant.
He had suspended by two silk threads a gun-barrel which received electricity from an electrical machine.
He set up a line of hempen thread six hundred and fifty feet long, and with an electrical machine at one end of the line electrified a boy suspended from the other end.
Franklin determined to send a kite into a thunder-cloud, thinking electricity from the cloud would follow the string of the kite and could be stored in a Leyden jar, and used like the charge from an electrical machine.
Having dissected a frog, he laid it on a table on which stood an electrical machine.
The metals used were a silver probe, a roll of tin-foil, and a common brass conductor belonging to an electrical machine.
A frog was laid, successively, upon a number of different metals, insulated upon glass, and positively electrified by communicating with the prime conductor of an electrical machine.
The head of a frog having been separated from its body, the latter was laid upon a plate of zinc, held by a person sitting in an insulated chair, which communicated with the prime conductor of an electrical machine.
The Professor himself had prepared the frogs for the stew-pan, and left them upon a table near the conductor of an electrical machine.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "electrical machine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
