Stream thrown across the receiver above the magnet-poles.
(e) The stream was thrown across the receiver from the lateral binding-screws above, and at right angles to, the disks, and afterwards in the opposite direction, i. e. along them. In neither case was there any marked change when the magnet was excited.
(f) The conical armatures were placed with the pointed ends upon the disks in the receiver, and the stream thrown above and along them. It diverged—one part running straight across between the electrodes, whilst another stream and some cobwebs ran from each electrode to its nearest pole. The streams and cobwebs flickered a good deal. There was no marked change when the magnet was excited.
Some of Baron Reichenbach’s Magnetic Researches tested.
Baron Reichenbach’s researches.
In 1846 Dr. W. Gregory published an abstract of Baron Reichenbach’s ‘Researches on Magnetism and on certain allied subjects, including a supposed new Imponderable.’
Auroræ considered to be magnetic lights. Flames seen by “sensitive” persons.
From a paragraph in this work, it would seem that the Baron considered his observations as tending to an explanation of the Aurora Borealis; and, since it was generally admitted that these phenomena occur within our atmosphere, that there appeared a great probability of Auroræ being visible magnetic lights. The Baron, in the original work, fully describes the Aurora Borealis; and concludes it must be similar in its nature to the flames of light seen streaming from the magnet-poles by Mdlle. Reichel and other sensitive patients of the Baron’s. It is unfortunate that these flames were only seen by certain “sensitive” persons. The drawings given of them, too, show no analogy to the magnetic curves.
Magnet tested for such flames.