THE electroscope which Prof. Lodge proposes to use to indicate positive and negative potentials by different movements of the leaves (see p. 320), has the disadvantage that (assuming the case to be ...

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I SUPPOSE teachers still use gold-leaf electroscopes for their junior lectures; certainly I have found nothing else so dead-beat, or so readily understood; and by projecting with a lens a shadow of ...