Experimental equipment to test electrical conductivity in a vacuum mb-height 4477 showing the men at work

showing the men at work

left arm around the chair back

and the duty of the Liberal Party

North front of Princess's Theatre on Eastcastle Street

Experimental equipment to test electrical conductivity in a vacuum mb-height 4477 showing the men at workPlate 9 figures 1 2 from the paper 'Electrical experiments made in order to ascertain the non conducting power of a perfect vacuum', by William Morgan, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 75 (1785), pp. 272 278. Figure 1 shows a 15 inch mercury gauge partially coated with tin foil, emptied of air and inverted into a mercury cistern. A wire is visible within this reservoir, through which an electrical current was passed but without