Re: A LAB TO SHARE

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

I was alluding to the problem of placing a dielectric between nested spheres
-- since he didn't pour it, they were split spheres?

Tanks,

bc


Brian Whatcott wrote:

> He used dielectric materials prepared in advance.
>   He was especially concerned to check for the presence
> of pre existing electric effects and checked with Coulomb's
> electrometer as a precaution.
> As an aside, I see he unusually refers to an
> American electromotor device whose properties he explored.
>
> Brian W
>
> At 01:54 AM 2/13/02, you wrote:
> > He poured in molten dielectric?   He musta made electrets!
> >
> > bc
> >
> >
> > Brian Whatcott wrote:
> >
> > > When I looked over Faraday's Eleventh series of experiments
> > > wherein he first discovers the variation of the 'specific electric
> > > induction' or dielectric constant of  different  dielectric solids
> > >   in his 'inductive apparatus', which was a gas-tight
> > > coaxial spherical capacitor,  I see that he demonstrates charge
> > > recovery in a single dielectric slab, and later explores the

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