452 



Index to Cavendish Manuscripts 



System of coated plates, 316 



Tables 



Coated plates, 315, 324, 325, 370, 442, 462, 



482, 500, 592, 593, 662, 663, 671 

 Cylinders, 383, 503, 596 

 Electrometers, 568, 570 

 Exp. Ill, 267; Exp. IV, 269, 270 

 Exp. V, 274, 275, 454, 473, 649, 681 

 Exp. VI, 279, 449; Exp. VII, 281, 682 

 Hot glass, 368 

 Jars, 573 



Plates of air, 343, 519, 670 

 Plates of wax, &c., 371 

 Sliding plates, 589 

 Solutions of salt, &c., 689, 694, 695, 



696 



Specific gravity, 595 

 Trial plates, 465 

 Tubes, 575, 632, 633, 636 

 Thermometer tube, 383, 562 

 Thickness of plates, effect on charge, 269, 

 272 ; of coated plates, 314; of air plates, 

 341; measurement, 517, 594, 595 

 Three parallel plates, 288 

 Tinfoil, 222; discharger, 426 

 Torpedo, ist wooden, 409, 415, 596; 2nd 

 leather, 416, 600, 608, 611, 612, 615; 

 in basket, 421 ; in sand, 422 ; in net, 424. 

 See note 29 

 Touching, to compare charges, 413, 441, 



582, 583 



Trial plate, theory of, 153 and note 17; list 

 of, 590; description of, 238, 239, 296, 

 297, 298, 454, 457, 465, 592; charge as 

 square root of surface, 247, 251, 284; 

 sliding wire, 447; sliding cylinder, 547, 



567 



Trough, torpedo, 410, 587 

 Tubes, measures of, 632-635 



Undercharge, 6 



Usual degree of electrification, length of 



spark ,i>j inch, 263, 329, 359, 520; why 



so weak, 264 



Vacuum, 99, 212, 213 

 Varnish, 304, 494 

 Vermilion, 494, 497 

 Vessel, conducting, 51-53 

 Vial, Leyden, 240 

 Vial, third made, 441 

 Vitriol, oil of, 626, 696 



Walsh (John, F.R.S., M.P., d. 1795), 395, 



396, 401, 415, 421, 424, 430 

 Wasting of electricity, 393, 394, 486, 487 

 Water, resistance of, 398; distilled, 617, 621, 



688; rain, 617; purged of air, 624, 692; 



impregnated with fixed air, 625, 693; 



pump, 684; sea, 524, 684 

 Wax, 387 

 Waxed glass, 255, 271, 295, 447, 450, 476, 



54'. 563 



Weather, effect of on coated plates, 304 

 Weight of electric fluid, 5 

 White glass, 301, 460 



Wilcke (Johann Karl, b. 1732, d. 1796), 134 

 Williamson, Hugh, M.D., 437 

 Wilson (Benjamin, F.K.S., b. 1721, d. 1788), 



125 



Wind, electric, 125 



Wire, 219, 240; charge of, 279, 479, 683; 

 trials of, 447, 448; connecting, allow- 

 ance for, 337; in straw electrometer, 



387. 388 



Wires compared with canals of incompress- 

 ible fluid, 94, 278 and note 3 



Woods, conductance of soaked, 561, 588, 

 609 



"Work," MS. so called, 349 



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