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THE subject of the discourse was brought before the members of the Royal Institution some years ago by Mr. Gordon. In the interval a considerable amount of work has been done upon it, both in England and Germany, and many experiments have been devised to illustrate it. Some of the more striking of these, though of great interest to the student, are rarely or never shown in courses of experimental lectures. The lecturer and Mr. C. V. Boys, F.R.S., last year devised a set of apparatus which has made the optical demonstration of electrical stress comparatively easy, and most of the results obtained by Kerr and Quincke can now be demonstrated to audiences of a considerable size. Before discussing this portion of his subject the lecturer introduced it by an explanation of principles on which the experiments are founded.
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Electrical Stress 1 . Nature 39, 444–445 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039444a0
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