It is only the discharge of part of their electricity upon such bodies as are either not electrified at all, or not so highly electrified as the cloud, that does all the mischief.
We have a strong proof that electricity is concerned, or indeed the principal agent, in producing the ignis fatuus, from an experiment related by Dr.
He gave the name of Animal Electricity to this order of new phenomena, from the analogy that he considered existing between these effects and those produced by electricity.
Though it cannot be doubted that most fairy rings, if not all of them, have considerable relation to the running of a fungus; there, nevertheless, seems reason to conclude that electricity may likewise be concerned in their production.
In those instances where travellers have been attended by an ignis fatuus, we cannot suppose it to have been influenced by any other power than what we call attraction, and which electricity is very capable of producing.
The explication of this phenomenon had puzzled all philosophers, till the modern discoveries in electricity led to the most probable account of it.
He only lacked gas, electricity and artificial refrigeration, modern achievements while useful in the kitchen and indispensable in wholesale production and for labor saving, that have no bearing on purely gastronomical problems.
And our new aristocracy has been too busy with limousines, golf, divorces and electricity to bemourn the decline of classic cookery.
The principle of working clocks by electricity was advanced by Alexander Bain.
From this well devised experiment, he concludes, likewise, that animal electricity is the principle of life.
The contractions of animals excited by electricityhave a tendency to destroy that power upon which contractions depend.
The following experiment was made, in order to see if the effect produced upon a frog, by the passage of artificial electricity from any part of its body, would be increased by employing two different metals as conductors.
It is said, (for I have never had an opportunity of making the experiment,) that a stream of electricitypassed through a sensitive plant produces an almost immediate collapse of its leaves.
That appears probable unless it flows back in the shape of heat or electricity to the celestial spaces.
The bodies if elastic will rebound from one another with their original velocity; if not elastic they will sustain an alteration of form, and heat or electricity will be generated of equivalent value to the power which has disappeared.
In a galvanic battery, the source ofelectricity is chemical action; but what is chemical action?
If light appears, its antecedent has been impact or friction, condensation or chemical action, and if electricity appears the same sort of antecedents are present.
Physiological antecedents of electricity are exemplified by the structure and mode of operation of certain muscles (Fig.
One may say, "Electrical action is not hindered by a vacuum," which is true, but has quite another interpretation than the implication that electricity is an ether phenomenon.
Thus to name a few: If mechanical motion develops electricity, electricity will produce mechanical motion; the movement of a pith ball and an electric motor are examples.
Is there more than one possible interpretation to this, namely, that electricity is fundamentally a molecular and atomic phenomenon, and in the absence of molecules cannot exist?
The product of the mechanical motion is electricity in the dynamo.
Some substances will conduct sound or light or heat or electricity better in one direction than in another.
Electricity and magnetism were imponderable fluids, which, when allied with ordinary matter, endowed the latter with their peculiar qualities.
We will turn now to the mode in which electricity manifests itself, and what it can do.
Electricity might have been used ages ago, had not dull-witted man refused to find anything better for lighting purposes than an oil-lamp or a tallow candle!
They had, according to plan and instructions received, "plumed" the airship forelectricity in a new and curious manner, but there was no battery to generate a current.
Mid-day, and even feeding-time, passed by gloomily enough, till a small disturbance occurred which had the effect of releasing some of the electricity with which the air was charged.
It was but a trifling matter that had caused all this electricity in the atmosphere, and the girls' manner of taking it seemed to me most unreasonable.
Some day electricity will release us from bondage.
Our London electricityis both expensive and poor; consumers are at the mercy of the companies, and a little wholesome competition is very imperative.
We found "work" changes in the brain-cells of electric fish after all their electricity had been rapidly discharged (Fig.
Formerly, according to Franklin's theory of a single electric fluid, negative electricity was supposed to be electricity in a degree below saturation, or the natural amount for a given body.
A voltaic series of two or more large plates, producing a great quantity of electricity of low tension, and hence adapted to the exhibition of electro-magnetic phenomena.
In the third circuit at Parc Saint Maur, where no earth plates exist, the current must be mainly due to changes in the earth's vertical magnetic field, with superposed disturbances due to atmospheric electricity or aerial waves.
Mayall was just the man for that place; for as quick as a flash of electricity all his presence of mind returned.
The splinters of every form lay scattered where the currents of electricity in their fearful descent had rent in fragments some giant of the forest, torn out its oaken heart and scattered its ribs and limbs upon the forest floor.
He has a sneaking fear that Christianity has been supplanted by electricity and he worships Huxley rather than Christ crucified--Huxley!
Now he understood; it was simply a trick, the passing of a strong current of electricity through platinum wires until they became incandescent.
Is your viewless, formless electricity anything more or anything less than my god?
In another case the sciatic nerve in various creatures was stimulated with electricity from one-half to seven hours.
To go back to the time when we didn't know that the witch-child existed would be going back from electricity to candles.
A tiny shock of electricity seemed to flash through his shoulder to mine.
When the electricity strikes the conductor on the mast, the cannon is instantaneously fired.
To prove farther, that the electricity can produce combustion after passing through water, he connected the conductor below the keel by a copper wire, with the touch-hole of a small cannon, which was floated in the tub.
As late as 1832, Faraday could make only the rather noncommittal statement: "By current I mean anything progressive, whether it be a fluid of electricity or vibrations or generally progressive forces.
Describing his water-electrolysis device in that year, he wrote: The instrument offers the only actual measurer [italics his] of voltaic electricity which we at present possess.
The surprise is still greater when one realizes that many of the contemporary natural philosophers were firmly persuaded, even in the absence of positive evidence, that there must be a connection between electricity and magnetism.
Volta himself realized that the crucial test between his theory and that of Galvani required confirming the existence of metal-contact electricity by some electrical but nonphysiological detector.
Cu is, next to Ag, the best conductor of electricity and heat among the elements; it is very ductile, malleable, and tenacious.
Mark the electrode attached to the Zn -, and that attached to the C +; positive electricity at one end of a body commonly implies negative at the other.
Bill was helping Mabelle on with her coat, his well-set body charged with electricity that was strangely illuminating to Jap.
I had seen them start slowly on after the woman; but when I got upon the bridge I could just see the hat of your friend Smug in a jam some distance ahead, near the Electricity Building, and Bob, the eel, had vanished once more.
It is not known how it is done any more than it is known how electricity works, but it is similar to electricity in that there is a sender and a receiver, and thought-waves can be sent by one and picked up by another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "electricity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
