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THE VARIOUS FORCES OF NATURE.

you perceive how easily I can manage to send this power of electricity from place to place, by choosing the materials which can conduct the Fig. 43.power. Suppose I want to fire a portion of gunpowder, I can readily do it by this transferable power of electricity. I will take a Leyden