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The One Great Force - The Cause Of Gravitation, Planetary Motion, Heat, Light, Electricity, Magnetism, Chemical Affinity (1868) (Paperback)
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The One Great Force - The Cause Of Gravitation, Planetary Motion, Heat, Light, Electricity, Magnetism, Chemical Affinity (1868) (Paperback)
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CHAPTER T. ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM. That electricity and heat are
in some manner correlated, has long been evident. Each generates
the other, but the precise connection between them has eluded the
scrutiny of the most careful experimenters. The chief difference
between them is that heat is diffused from its point of origin in
every direction, and consequently with comparative moderation and
evenness; while the characteristic of electricity is its intensity,
its explosiveness, its tendency to act in channels or currents. If
heat is simply the self-repulsive element, caloric, electricity is
caloric confined in channels or bubbles. Air, undisturbed, is
viewless and soundless; mixed in rapid motion with water and other
elements, by means of friction or otherwise, it takes the form of
bubbles, covered with a slight film, visible to the eye, and which
burst with a perceptible noise at the slightest change of pressure.
Electricity is an analogous result produced by the intermixture of
caloric with other elements, usually by means of friction. The
suddenness, whichis an element of all electrical phenomena, is
thoroughly in unison with this idea of explosiveness. A small
amount of electricity, too, is conducted thousands of miles through
an iron wire; while it would require an enormous consumption of
matter by combustion, to send light and heat to such a distance
through the open medium of the atmosphere. If the iron is furnished
with minute channels which confine the caloric, -and prevent its
expending its force in a lateral direction, the reason of its
producing far greater results in the shape of electricity than in
that of heat, which radiates in every direction, is at once
apparent. The action is almost precisely like that of powder in a
gun barrel. If an ounce of powder be...
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