Project Gutenberg 2014-07-01 Public domain in the USA. 79 Watson, William, Sir 1715 1787 Watson, W. (William), Sir 96104205 Experiments and Observations Tending to Illustrate the Nature and Properties of Electricity In One Letter to Martin Folkes, Esq; President, and Two to the Royal Society Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Experiments and Observations Tending to Illustrate the Nature and Properties of Electricity" by William Watson is a scientific publication written in the mid-18th century. This work is a compilation of experiments and findings related to the phenomena of electricity, exploring its various properties and behaviors. Watson's approach combines practical experimentation with a theoretical understanding of electricity, which was a burgeoning field of study at the time. In the book, Watson details a series of experiments demonstrating how electricity can ignite various substances, including spirits of wine and camphor, by utilizing both attractive and repulsive forces inherent to electrical phenomena. He meticulously describes the conditions necessary for successful experiments, emphasizing the critical roles of environmental factors such as humidity and temperature. By documenting his observations and results, Watson provides a foundation for understanding electrical interactions, drawing connections to magnetism and light. Through his detailed methodology, he encourages further inquiry into electrical properties, highlighting that even though considerable knowledge had been gained, much remained undiscovered. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/46168/46168-h/images/cover.jpg en Electricity -- Early works to 1850 QC Text Browsing: Science - General 94083 94093 2024-09-19T10:06:29.633955 2023-09-20T06:23:30.460853 text/html text/html 90642 2014-07-01T15:49:18 text/html; charset=utf-8 88166 2014-07-01T15:49:20 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 104249 2024-09-19T10:06:32.811928 application/epub+zip 102659 2024-09-19T10:06:30.267968 application/epub+zip 94102 2024-09-19T10:06:29.941920 application/epub+zip 144824 2024-09-19T10:06:34.669934 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 128490 2024-09-19T10:06:32.314987 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 120471 2022-09-21T04:32:35.545133 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 76483 76320 2024-09-19T10:06:29.396103 2023-09-20T06:23:30.246847 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 76370 2014-07-01T15:49:18 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 27747 2014-07-01T15:49:20 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 76367 2014-07-01T15:49:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 27724 2014-07-01T15:49:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19756 2024-09-19T10:06:34.804984 application/rdf+xml 16933 2024-09-19T10:06:30.012938 image/jpeg 3224 2024-09-19T10:06:29.976936 image/jpeg 92407 2024-09-19T10:06:29.646955 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog