Paper, 'On the rate at which electricity leaks through liquids which are bad conductors of electricity' by J J [Joseph John] Thomson and H F [Hugh Frank] Newall

Description

The authors write: 'The experiments here described were undertaken to test whether the rate at which electricity leaks through a liquid which conducts electricity badly, does or does not follow Ohm’s law. The method used is described later on; it consists in establishing by a battery a difference of potential of about 100 volts between the plates of a condenser, in which the dielectric is the faulty insulator to be experimented on, then disconnecting the battery, and measuring with an electrometer the rate at which the difference of potential dies away.'

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes two diagrams of experimental apparatus and eight graphs of experimental results.

Subject: Physics / Chemistry

Received 26 May 1887. Read 16 June 1887.

A version of this paper was published in volume 42 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the rate at which electricity leaks through liquids which are bad conductors of electricity'.

Reference number

PP/10/52

Earliest possible date

1887

Physical description

Ink and coloured pencil on paper

Page extent

34 pages

Format

Manuscript
Diagram