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REFERRING to Dr. S. W. Richardson's letter in NATURE of Feb. 12 on the rotation of dielectric bodies in electrostatic fields shown by Mr. L. G. Vedy and Mr. G. Gowlland, at the recent exhibition of the Physical Society, it may be of interest to point out that at the Exhibition in 1896 I showed two experiments which seem to bear on the subject. The first was with a highly dried dielectric liquid. If a spherical electrode is fixed some 5 mm. or 6 mm above the surface and charged from one pole of a Wimshurst, the other pole being earthed, the liquid quietly rises up in a conical form, attaches itself to the electrode, and remains suspended while the field is maintained.
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ADDENBROOKE, G. Rotation of Bodies with Dielectric Surfaces in Electrostatic Fields. Nature 119, 389 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119389a0
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