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An Epitome of Electricity and Galvanism

by Jacob Green and Erskine Hazard

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  1. 1Recommendations
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Introduction
  4. 4Section II — Electricity as Known to the Moderns
  5. 5Division I
  6. 6Chap. II — Electric Substances; With Some of the Phenomena Attendin…
  7. 7Chap. III — Of Electrics and Conductors
  8. 8Chap. IV — Of the Electrical Machine
  9. 9Chap. V — Of Communicated Electricity
  10. 10Chap. VI — Of the Electric Spark
  11. 11Chap. VII — Of the Influence of Pointed Bodies on Electricity, and…
  12. 12Chap. VIII — Of Electric Attraction and Repulsion
  13. 13Chap. IX — Of the Leyden Phial
  14. 14Chap. X — The Electrical Battery — And Experiments Performed With It
  15. 15Chap. XI — A Description of the Electrophorus, and Some of Its Phen…
  16. 16Chap. XII — Of Electrometers
  17. 17Chap. XIII — The Identity of Electricity With Lightning
  18. 18Chap. XIV — Of the Structure and Use of the Electrical Kite
  19. 19Chap. XV — The Structure and Use of Lightning Rods
  20. 20Chap. XVI — Of Animal Electricity
  21. 21Chap. XVII — The Influence of Electricity on Vegetables
  22. 22Chap. XVIII — Medical Electricity
  23. 23Chap. XIX
  24. 24Division II
  25. 25Chap. II — Experiments With Electric Light
  26. 26Chap. III — Experiments With Charged Electrics
  27. 27Chap. IV — Experiments Relating to the Influence of Pointed Bodies…
  28. 28Chap. V — Promiscuous Experiments
  29. 29Division III
  30. 30Chap. II — Theories of Electricity, Exclusive of That of Franklin
  31. 31Chap. III — The Franklinian Theory of Electricity
  32. 32Appendix
  33. 33Number II — A Composition for Coating Cylinders or Globes
  34. 34Number III — To Make the Best Kind of Amalgam for Exciting Electrics
  35. 35Number IV — The Preparation of Electrical Paint
  36. 36Number V — To Make the Artificial Bolognian Stone
  37. 37Chap. I — A Short Account of the Discovery of Galvanism
  38. 38Chap. II
  39. 39Chap. III — A Description of the Galvanic Trough and Pile
  40. 40Chap. IV — The Method of Performing Galvanic Experiments With Frogs…
  41. 41Chap. V — Various Experiments With the Galvanic Pile
  42. 42Chap. VI — Experiments on the Deflagration of Metals by the Galvani…
  43. 43Chap. VII — Further Galvanic Experiments on Metals, and on Other Su…
  44. 44Chap. VIII — Experiments Which May Be Performed Without the Assista…
  45. 45To Affect the Taste by Means of Water
  46. 46To Prove That Earth-Worms Have a Nervous System
  47. 47Chap. IX — Some Common Effects Which Are Supposed to Be Occasioned…
  48. 48Chap. X — The Effects of Galvanism on Vegetables
  49. 49Chap. XI — Of Medical Galvanism
  50. 50Chap. XII — The Identity of Galvanism With Electricity Considered
  51. 51Facts Which Seem to Indicate That Galvanism and Electricity Are the…
  52. 52Facts in Which Galvanism and Electricity Differ From Each Other

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