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2. On Currents produced by Friction between Conducting Substances, and on a new form of Telephone Receiver

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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Extract

In former papers laid before this Society, I showed that when any two metals are rubbed against each other, a current of electricity is produced; and that this current agrees in direction with the thermo-electric current for the same two metals, and is neater approximately at least, in proportion as the metals rubbed are far apart on the thermo-electric scale,—the greatest current, as far as I have yet observed, being got from antimony and bismuth.

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Proceedings 1879–80
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1880

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