The Leyden jar is a dissectible capacitor made of aluminum and glass that poses an interesting question of where the stored charge resides. A series of experiments can be done showing that the charge ...

We in medicine are generally aware of how important electric devices are — and were — to understanding the function of the heart and brain. Thanks primarily to work by physicists who sought to tame ...

I don’t have any frog legs on my testbench. But that’s because I don’t live in the late 1700s (which is probably a bit obvious since you are reading this online). Back in the day, though, in place of ...

IN your issue of Feb. 14 (p. 380) there is an “Electrical Note” which is very misleading. You will perhaps allow me to say, therefore, that Mr. Acheson's photographs show no evidence of oscillation ...

When Benjamin Franklin performed his kite experiment in the midst of an electrical thunderstorm and lived for many more years to tell the tale, the device he had at hand to store electric charge was ...

AT a meeting of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow on December 22, 1880, I gave a very brief preliminary account of some experiments that I have been making, along with Sir William Thomson, with ...

It might be too soon to consider the innards of the old CRT monitor at the back of your closet to be something worth putting on display in your home or workshop. For that curio cabinet-worthy appeal, ...