Journal of the Franklin Institute

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Pergamon Press, 1859
 

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Page 43 - ... in consequence of the effect of communication which supervenes in the conducting mass upon the polarization of the particles of that body (1675). 1678. That therefore induction can only take place through or across insulators; that induction is insulation, it being the necessary consequence of the state of the particles and the mode in which the influence of electrical forces is transferred or transmitted through or across such insulating media.

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