The Electrification of Insulating Materials
Abstract
SOME time ago, while endeavouring to get a trustworthy method of producing static charges in a humid atmosphere, I had occasion to experiment with celluloid. Rolled celluloid sheet with the surface burnished was found very suitable. If a ``tassel'' be made of this material by cutting up a small piece of thin sheet into narrow strips, then by simply placing the ``tassel'' on a table and stroking with the fingers, strong electrification is produced. On raising the ``tassel'' the strips diverge, and remain divergent in a most striking manner.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- April 1910
- DOI:
- 10.1038/083189a0
- Bibcode:
- 1910Natur..83..189J