id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 46168 Watson, William, Sir 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 .txt text/plain 9201 385 66 I HAD before observ'd, that although[2] Non-electric Bodies made the Air, or comes near to some non-electric Substance; if so, the therefore it repels the Electricity arising from the glass Tube, and disposes it to electrify whatever non-electrical Bodies receive the as inflammable Substances may be fired by Electricity two different Power of Electricity, when this Effect arises from their being brought Hand to receive the electrical Flashes, when the Finger of the brought a cold, though dry, Glass Tube near three Feet long into a Room, Let a Man, standing upon electrical Cakes, hold this Plate in his Hand Finger, without the Glass being first made non-electric by wetting. neither Electric's _per se_ excited, or electrified Bodies, exert their the electrical Flashes fire the inflammable Vapour, which fires the when they have observed one end of an excited Glass Tube repel light and then this Power is observed first at that Part of the Non-electric ./cache/46168.txt ./txt/46168.txt