...publication with it. This ingenious author, from a variety of well-adapted expcri. ments, is of opinion, that the electrical matter consists of particles extremely...since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom, as not to receive any perceptible resistance. Electrical matter,...

...Science, NS, Vol. XXXIX. p. 533, April 10, 1914. \Principia, new English edition, Vol. II, p. 221. since it can permeate common matter, even the densest,...ease as not to receive any appreciable resistance." I have not been able to verify this quotation in any work by Franklin to which I have access. In his...

...Science, NS, Vol. XXXIX. p. 533. April 10, 1914. ^Principia, new English edition, Vol. II, p. 221. since it can permeate common matter, even the densest,...ease as not to receive any appreciable resistance." I have not been able to verify this quotation in any work by Franklin to which I have access. In his...

...photo-electricity. In both fields my own work has been that of the mere experimentalist whose main motive has been to devise, if possible, certain crucial experiments...written in 1871. The numerical value of the ultimate 1 Werke IV, 281. electrical unit was first definitely estimated by G. Johnstone STONEY ' in 1881, and...

...electricity. Franklin believed in the granular structure of electricity as the following quotation shows: " The electrical matter consists of particles extremely...ease as not to receive any appreciable resistance." If he had happened in his hypothesis to make the electric fluid correspond to the negative instead...

...To show you what a close shot at long range Franklin was I will quote his definition of electricity: The electrical matter consists of particles extremely...ease as not to receive any appreciable resistance. But this was too simple a notion to suit succeeding scientists, and so for more than a hundred and...

...electricity, since he clearly recognizes the existence of an electrical particle or atom in these words: "The electrical matter consists of particles extremely...ease as not to receive any appreciable resistance." No real advance in the theory of tbe atomic structure of electricity was made until 1833 when Faraday,...

...the nature of this electrical fire and his conclusions may be stated in his own oft-quoted words : " The electrical matter consists of particles extremely...ease as not to receive any appreciable resistance." We may marvel at this conclusion in the light of present-day knowledge, but we must remember that it...

...fluid. Franklin, moreover, kept the notions of electricity and matter in closer union; according to him "The electrical matter consists of particles extremely...ease as not to receive any appreciable resistance." The researches of the twentieth century have driven the "two-fluid" theory out of existence and have...

...had undoubtedlv believed in the existence of an electrical particle or atom. In fact Franklin says : "The electrical matter consists of particles extremely...ease as not to receive any appreciable resistance." Franklin probably had no idea that it would ever be possible to isolate and study by itself one of...