The Electrical Researches of ... Henry Cavendish, F. R. S.

The Electrical Researches of ... Henry Cavendish, F. R. S. PDF Author: Henry Cavendish
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Category : Electricity
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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The Electrical Researches of ... Henry Cavendish, F. R. S.

The Electrical Researches of ... Henry Cavendish, F. R. S. PDF Author: Henry Cavendish
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Languages : en
Pages : 538

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Electrical Researches of the Honorable Henry Cavendish

Electrical Researches of the Honorable Henry Cavendish PDF Author: James Clerk Maxwell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136228322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), the grandson of the second duke of Devonshire, wrote papers on electrical topics for the Royal Society, but the majority of his electrical experiments did not become known until they were collected and published by James Clerk Maxwell a century later, in 1879, long after other scientists had been credited with the same results. Among Cavendish's discoveries were the concept of electric potential, which he called the 'degree of electrification'; an early unit of capacitance, that of a sphere one inch in diameter; the formula for the capacitance of a plate capacitor; the concept of the dielectric constant of a material; the relationship between electric potential and current, now called Ohm's Law; laws for the division of current in parallel circuits, now attributed to Charles Wheatstone; and the inverse square law of variation of electric force with distance, now called Coulomb's Law.

The Electrical Researches of the honourable Henry Cavendish, F.R.S.

The Electrical Researches of the honourable Henry Cavendish, F.R.S. PDF Author:
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9781001381800
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Languages : en
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The Electrical Researches of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, F.R.S.

The Electrical Researches of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, F.R.S. PDF Author: Sir Henry Cavendish
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Category : Electricity
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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First edition of Cavendish's groundbreaking electrical research.

Cavendish

Cavendish PDF Author: Christa Jungnickel
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 0871692201
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 463

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"The Cavendishes flourished during the high tide of British aristocracy following the revolution of 1688-89, and the case can be made that this aristocracy knew its finest hour when Henry Cavendish gently laid his delicate weights in the pan of his incomparable precision balance. For this it took two generations and two kinds of invention, one in social forms and the other in scientific technique. This biography tells how it came to pass."--Book jacket

The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish ...

The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish ... PDF Author: Henry Cavendish
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Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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The Electrical Researches of ... Henry Cavendish, F. R. S.

The Electrical Researches of ... Henry Cavendish, F. R. S. PDF Author: Henry Cavendish
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Category : Electricity
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Cavendish

Cavendish PDF Author: Christa Jungnickel
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838754450
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 844

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"The Cavendishes flourished during the high tide of British aristocracy following the revolution of 1688-89, and the case can be made that this aristocracy knew its finest hour when Henry Cavendish gently laid his delicate weights in the pan of his incomparable precision balance. For this it took two generations and two kinds of invention, one in social forms and the other in scientific technique. This biography tells how it came to pass."--BOOK JACKET.

The Electrical Researches of Henry Cavendish, F.R.S.

The Electrical Researches of Henry Cavendish, F.R.S. PDF Author: Henry Cavendish
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Category : Electric power
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, F. R. S

The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, F. R. S PDF Author:
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108018211
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 490

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Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) was an English scientist whose published work was mostly concerned with electricity. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1760. Cavendish was a prolific scientific investigator, performing experiments on not only electricity but also magnetism, thermometry, gases, heat potential and the chemical composition of water. Although he published some of his research, including his discovery of hydrogen, the majority of his work remained unpublished until 1879, when James Clerk Maxwell published a collection of Cavendish's electrical experiments. These papers showed that Cavendish had discovered many important electrical concepts which had since been credited to other researchers, including the concept of electric potential. First published in 1921, these volumes are a collection of Cavendish's results from his many experiments. Volume 1 is a revised edition of James Clerk Maxwell's 1879 volume Electrical Researches of Henry Cavendish, also reissued in this series.