Abstract
MUCH of the present knowledge concerning the capillary electrometer is due to the author of this little book. The instrument was invented in 1875 by Prof. Lippmann, but for twenty years it was hardly used by any people except physiologists, and even by them only in a doubtful sort of way, for they thought that its indication gave merely the period and direction of a sudden change of P.D., and they feared that the magnitude of the variation could not be deduced from the excursion of the meniscus formed at the junction of the threads of mercury and dilute sulphuric acid.
The Capillary Electrometer: its Theory and Practice.
Part i. By G. J. Burch Pp. 54. Reprinted from the Electrician. (London: G. Tucker.)
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A., W. The Capillary Electrometer: its Theory and Practice. Nature 57, 148–149 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/057148a0
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