Open AccessThe electric fluid
Author(s) -
W. F. Stevenson
Publication year - 1851
Publication title -
abstracts of the papers communicated to the royal society of london
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9134
pISSN - 0365-0855
DOI - 10.1098/rspl.1843.0092
Subject(s) - conductor , body fluid , mechanics , philosophy , physics , classical mechanics , mathematics , medicine , geometry , pathology
The author denies the existence of two electric fluids, and maintains that all the phenomena are explicable on the hypothesis of a single fluid; which when present in a conducting body renders it positive, and in a non-conducting body, negative; but a body which is naturally a conductor, may, he asserts, be rendered otherwise, by changing its form.