Work with Electricity

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Cavendish worked out a comprehensive theory of electricity. Similar to his theory of heat, he expressed his theory of electricity mathematically. Like all of his research, his theory was based on meticulous quantitative experiments. In 1771, he published a pre-mature version of this theory, which he based on an expansive electrical fluid that exerted pressure. In his paper he demonstrated "that if the intensity of electrical force was inversely proportional to distance, then the electrical fluid in excess of that needed for electrical neutrality would lie on the outer surface of an electrified sphere." This theory that he developed was demonstrated using experiments in his published paper with accurate results of his theory. Cavendish continued to work on electricity after this initial paper, but he published no more on the subject.



                                                                                                                                                      

                                                                                                                                              Scientist Experimenting in High Voltage Laboratory, Cavendish Laboratory,
                                                                                                                                                                                  University Of Cambridge, England
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