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Probably Desaguliers * [1683=> 1744]. However, Wm. Watson
[1715=>1787], "... explained more clearly than Desaguliers had done,
that atmospheric moisture destroyed electricity by conduction *."
* I couldn't find the reference, only the quote above.
** "The leak derives primarily through surface conductivity promoted by
the moisture, not from loss to the air, a point not understood until the
end of the 19th century. Ref: "Conduction of Electricity through
Gasses I", the Thomsons, Cambridge 1928. Quoted: Electricity in
the 17th and 18th Centuries, Heilbron, J. L. UC Press (1979)
bc, collector of miscellany.
Ludwik Kowalski wrote:
>When was the the effect of humidity recognized as a factor influencing
>electrostatic demonstrations? I suspect that Ben Franklin was already
>familiar with the effect of humidity. But I am not sure. Who was the
>first to write about this?
>
>Ludwik Kowalski
>Let the perfect not be the enemy of the good.
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