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IN my reprint of papers on electrostatics and magnetism (§ 400, of date January, 1862) I described briefly this method, in connection with a new physical principle, for exhibiting contact electricity by means of copper and zinc quadrants substituted for the uniform brass quadrants of my quadrant electrometer. I had used the same method, but with movable disks for the contact electricity, after the method of Volta, and my own quadrant electrometer substituted for the gold-leaf electroscope by which Volta himself obtained his electric indications, in an extensive series of experiments which I made in the years 1859–61.
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On a Method of Measuring Contact Electricity 1 . Nature 23, 567–568 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023567a0
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