Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 - Michael Faraday

Other parts of these researches have received the honour of critical attention from various philosophers, to all of whom I am obliged, and some of whose corrections I have acknowledged in the foot notes. There are, no doubt, occasions on which I have not felt the force of the remarks, but time and the progress of science will best settle such cases; and, although I cannot honestly say that I wish to be found in error, yet I do fervently hope that the progress of science in the hands of its many zealous present cultivators will be such, as by giving us new and other developments, and laws more and more general in their applications, will even make me think that what is written and illustrated in these experimental researches, belongs to the by-gone parts of science.

MICHAEL FARADAY.

Royal Institution,

March, 1839.

[Contents]
[First Series.]
[§ 1. Induction of Electric Currents.]
[§ 2. Evolution of Electricity from Magnetism.]
[§ 3. New Electrical State or Condition of Matter.]
[§ 4. Explication of Arago's Magnetic Phenomena.]
[Second Series.]
[§ 5. Terrestrial Magneto-electric Induction.]
[§ 6. General remarks and illustrations of the Force and Direction of Magneto-electric Induction.]
[Third Series.]
[§ 7. Identity of Electricities derived from different sources.]
[I. Voltaic Electricity.]
[II. Ordinary Electricity.]
[III. Magneto-Electricity.]
[IV. Thermo-Electricity.]
[V. Animal Electricity.]
[§ 8. Relation by Measure of common and voltaic Electricity.]
[Note respecting Ampère's inductive results]
[Fourth Series.]
[§ 9. On a new Law of Electric Conduction.]
[§ 10. On Conducting Power generally.]
[Fifth Series.]
[§ 11. On Electro-chemical Decomposition.]
[¶ i. New conditions of Electro-chemical Decomposition.]
[¶ ii. Influence of Water in Electro-chemical Decomposition.]
[¶ iii. Theory of Electro-chemical Decomposition.]
[Sixth Series.]
[§ 12. Power of platina, &c. to induce combination.]
[Seventh Series.]
[§ 11.* Electro-chemical Decomposition continued (nomenclature).]
[¶ iv. On some general conditions of Electro-chemical Decomposition.]
[¶ v. On a new measure of Volta-electricity.]
[¶ vi. On the primary or secondary character of the bodies evolved at the Electrodes.]
[¶ vii. On the definite nature and extent of Electro-chemical Decomposition.]
[§ 13. On the absolute quantity of Electricity associated with the particles or atoms of Matter.]
[Eighth Series.]
[§14. On the Electricity of the Voltaic Pile; its source, quantity, intensity, and general characters.]
[¶ i. On simple Voltaic Circles.]
[¶ ii. On the Intensity necessary for Electrolyzation.]
[¶ iii. On associated Voltaic Circles, or the Voltaic Battery.]
[¶ iv. On the Resistance of an Electrolyte to Electrolytic Action, and on Interpositions.]
[¶ v. General Remarks on the active Voltaic Battery.]
[Ninth Series.]
[§ 15. On the influence by induction of an Electric Current on itself:—and on the inductive action of Electric Currents generally.]
[Tenth Series.]
[§ 16. On an improved form of the Voltaic Battery.]
[§ 17. Some practical results respecting the construction and use of the Voltaic Battery (1034. &c.).]
[Eleventh Series.]
[§ 18. On Static Induction.]
[¶ i. Induction an action of contiguous particles.]
[¶ ii. On the absolute charge of matter.]
[¶ iii. Electrometer and inductive apparatus employed.]
[¶ iv. Induction in curved lines.]
[¶ v. On specific induction, or specific inductive capacity.]
[¶ vi. General results as to induction.]
[Supplementary Note to Experimental Researches in Electricity.—Eleventh Series.]
[Twelfth Series.]
[¶ vii. Conduction, or conductive discharge.]
[¶ viii. Electrolytic discharge.]
[¶ ix. Disruptive discharge and insulation.]
[The electric spark or flash.]
[The electrical brush.]
[Difference of discharge at the positive and negative conducting surfaces.]
[Thirteenth Series.]
[¶ ix. Disruptive discharge (continued).]
[Glow discharge.]
[Dark discharge.]
[¶ x. Convection, or carrying discharge.]
[¶ xi. Relation of a vacuum to electrical phenomena.]
[§ 19. Nature of the electric current.]
[Fourteenth Series.]
[§ 20. Nature of the electric force or forces.]
[§ 21. Relation of the electric and magnetic forces.]
[§ 22. Note on electrical excitation.]
[Index.]
[Notes]

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Experimental Researches In Electricity.