G. Mathiot on the Atlantic:Cable, 165 
I have not considered the fact that by the resistance of the 
wire of the cable, and the reaction of the parts which first re- 
ceive the static charge, the flow of the electricity is broken u 
into waves, and that consequently the whole of the insulation of 
the cable does not perform its full inductive office at once. I 
have necessarily been confined to general principles and admitted 
conditions of electrical action, the deductions however are the 
same as though the whole inductive surface of the cable were 
simultaneously charged, for the degree of charge given to the 
first portion determines the rapidity with which the successive 
Connection with the jar: 
minutes) diverge again. Now the time between the collapse of 
the leaves and their regaining their divergence, 18 the time 
required for charging the jar, to the tension due the pile:—that 
1s, it is the time required for that generator of electricity (the 
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