Figures showing apparatus for English scientist Francis Hauksbee's (1660-1730) experiment on light and mercury. Mercury is placed in glass vacuum tubes. The tubes are rubbed to cause friction between mercury and the glass which generates static electricity and causes light to be emitted. This study was the first time that a connection between light and electricity was established.Published in the scientific journal Philosophical Transactions, 1709. | |
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