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INDEX TO CAVENDISH MANUSCRIPTS 



The references are to the Articles. [See also Table of Contents] 



A, coated plate of glass so called, "First 

 got," 589, 592; Nairne's, 314, 593 



A, Double, 333, 451, 455, 461, 478, 483, 487, 



489, 491, 508, 509, 533, note 35 



Absorption, electric, 523, note 15 



Accuracy of measurements, 261 



Adjustment of charges of coated plates, 316 



/Epinus (Franz Ulrich Theodor, b. 1724, 

 d. 1802), i, 134, 340, 549 



-Epinus' experiment, 134, 340, 549 



Air between plates, not charged, 344, 345, 

 511, 516; communication of electricity 

 to, 118-125, 208, note 9; electric pro- 

 perties of, 99; electrified, 117, 256; 

 molecular constitution of, 97, and notes 

 6 and 18; electric phenomena illus- 

 trated by means of, 206 ; dielectric plate 

 of, 134, 34. 457. 517. 560 



Apparatus for trying charges, 240, 295 



Assistant, 242, 560 



Atmospheres, electric, 195198 



Attraction, 106-117, J 97> 2O2 - 2I . n te 8; 

 not caused by Torpedo, 408 



B, coated plate, 593 



B, Double, 455-457, 478, 483, 489 



Baking varnished plates, 496 



Barometer tubes as Leyden vials, 636 



Basket for Torpedo, 615 



Basket salt, 628 



Battery of Florence flasks. 521; of 49 jars, 



411, 432, 581; Nairne's, 585, 616 

 Beccaria, Giacomo Battista (17161781), 136 

 Bees'-wax as dielectric, 336, 371, 376 

 Breaking of electricity through plates, 520 



Calc. S. S. A., 626, 694 and note 34 



Calibration of tubes, 382, 383, 632-635 



Calipers, 459 



Canal for electric fluid, 40, 68, 69; bent, 48, 

 49, 8495 and note 3 



Canton, John, F.R.S. (17181772), 117, 205 



Cement, 303, 484, 497 



Chain battery, 433, 605, 613 



Charge defined, 237; does not depend on 

 material, 68; of similar bodies as dia- 

 meters, 71; of thin plate independent 

 of thickness, 73; of condensers not 

 affected by other bodies, 317, 443, 555; 

 of coated plates greater than by theory, 

 332; 'intended,' 316; 'computed,' 311, 

 326, 377, 458; 'real,' 313, 377; with 

 strong electrification, 356, 357, 451, 

 539; with weak, 358, 463, 539; with 

 negative, 463; effect of temperature, 

 366; measurements of, see Tables; of 

 battery, 412; divided, 288 



Charging jar, 223, 225 



Circles, charges on, 273 



Circuit, divided, 397, 417 



Coated plates, 300, 314, 441; theory of, 74, 



1 60, 169; lists of, see Tables 

 Coatings, electricity does not reside in, 133 

 Communication, 100, 219; of charge to bat- 

 tery, 414, 618 

 Comparison of charges, 236 

 Compound plate, 379381, 560, 677-679 

 Computed charge, 311, 312 

 Condensation distinguished from compression, 



200 



Conduction by hot glass, 369 

 Conductivity, 469, 491 ; of straws. 565 

 Conductor defined, 98 

 Cone, attraction on particle at vertex, 7 

 Conical point, escape of electricity from, 124 



and note 9 

 Contact, 306; never realized, 196 note; of 



brass and glass, 541, 558 

 Copper wire, resistance of, 636646 

 Cork balls, 116, 117, 441, 451 

 Crown glass, 301, 330, 378, 411, 430, 585, 595 

 Cylinder, 54, 148-151; charge of, 281, 285- 



287 and note 12; two, 152 and note 13; 



glass coated, 382, 454, 479; large tin, 



358, 539 and note 25 



D, coated plate, 483, 487 

 Deficient fluid, 67, note 

 DEFINITIONS: 



Canal, 40 



Charge, 237 



Communication, 100 



Compression, 199 



Computed charge, 311 



Condensation, 200 



Conductor, 98 



Deficient fluid, 67, note 



Electrification, 102, 201 



Immoveable fluid, 12 



Inches of electricity, circular, 458, 648, 

 globular, 654, square, 648, 654 



Incompressible fluid, 69 



Insulation, 100 



Non-conductors, 98 



Observed charge, 325 



Overcharge, 6, 201 



Real charge, 313 



Redundant fluid, 13 



Saturated body, 6 



Undercharge, 6 

 Degrees of electrification, 329, 356; of 



electrometer, 560, note 

 Dephlegmated wax, 371, 375, 518 

 Discharge, divided, 397, 417, 576, 597, 613 

 Distance to which electricity spreads, 309, 

 323, 328 



