Lectionary Calendar
Sunday, May 4th, 2025
the Third Sunday after Easter
Attention!
StudyLight.org has pledged to help build churches in Uganda. Help us with that pledge and support pastors in the heart of Africa.
Click here to join the effort!

Bible Encyclopedias
Electricity

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Search for…
or
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z
Prev Entry
Electric Light
Next Entry
Elegy
Resource Toolbox
Additional Links

The name given to a subtle agent called the electric fluid, latent in all bodies, and first evolved by friction, and which may manifest itself, under certain conditions, in brilliant flashes of light, or, when in contact with animals, in nervous shocks more or less violent. It is of two kinds, negative and positive, and as such exhibits itself in the polarity of the magnet, when it is called Magnetic (q. v .), and is excited by chemical action, when it is called Voltaic ( q. v .).

Bibliography Information
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Electricity'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​e/electricity.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile