298 Mr. Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity. 



App. i. App. ii. 



254° 



250 



divided and instantly taken 



122 



124. 



1 after being discharged. 



2 after being discharged. 



1209. Without endeavouring to allow for the loss which 

 must have been gradually going on during the time of the ex- 

 periment, let us observe the results of the numbers as they 

 stand. As 1° remained in app. i. in an undischargeable state, 

 249° may be taken as the utmost amount of the transferable 

 or divisible charge, the half of which is 124°'5. As app. ii. 

 was free of charge in the first instance, and immediately after 

 the division was found with 122°, this amount at least may be 

 taken as what it had received. On the other hand 124° minus 

 1°, or 123°, may be taken as the halfofthe transferable charge 

 retained by app. i. Now these do not differ much from each 

 other, or from 124°'5, the half of the full amount of transfer- 

 able charge; and when the gradual loss of charge evident in 

 the difference between 254° and 250" of app. i. is also taken 

 into account, there is every reason to admit the result as show- 

 ing an equal division of charge, unattended by any disappear- 

 ance qf power except that due to dissipation. 



1210. I will give another result, m which app. ii. was first 

 charged, and where the residual action of that apparatus was 

 greater than in the former case. 



App. i. App. ii. 



Balls 150° 



152" 



148 



divided and instantly taken 



70° 



78 



5 immediately after discharge. 



immediately after discharge. 



1211. The transferable charge being 148° — 5°, its half is 

 71°'5, which is not far removed from 70°, the half charge of 

 i. ; or from 73°, the half charge of ii. : these half charges again 

 making up the sum of 143°, or just the amount of the whole 

 transferable charge. Considering the errors of experiment, 

 therefore, these results may again be received as showing that 

 the apparatus were equal in inductive capacity, or in their 

 powers of receiving charges. 



1212. The experiments were repeated with charges of ne- 

 gative electricity with the same general results. 



