Autobiography of an Electron — 21 - Appendix

_THE SCRIBE'S NOTE ON APPENDIX_

As explained by the author in Chapter I. , this appendix has been added for the sake of those readers who may wish further details than have been given in the electron's story.

It is only necessary to give a brief notice of the more important particulars, as the author has written recently upon this subject in a popular form.

[1] [Footnote 1: "Scientific Ideas of To-day."

By Chas.

R.

Gibson, F. R.

S.

E.

(London: Seeley & Co. , Ltd. Five shillings net.

)] APPENDIX

It was known two thousand years ago that when a piece of amber was rubbed with a woollen cloth, the amber would attract light objects towards it.

Amber was considered to be unique in this respect.

About the year 1600, one of Queen Elizabeth's physicians, Dr. William Gilbert, inquired into this attractive property of amber.

He found that many other substances possessed the same property.

Indeed it is common to all substances in some degree.

We say the amber or other object is "electrified."

It was observed by the early experimenters that there were two kinds of electrification.

To one of these they gave the name _positive electricity_, and to the other _negative electricity_.

Every electrified object will attract an object which is not electrified, and two objects which are oppositely electrified will attract one another also.

But two objects which are similarly electrified will repel each other.

Man got tired of rubbing objects by hand, so he fitted up simple machines in which glass cylinders or plates were rubbed against leather cushions.

The electricity was then collected by little metal points supported on an insulated metal sphere.

The experiment of attempting to store electricity in a glass vessel filled with water was made at the University of Leyden (Netherlands).

The water was replaced later by a coating of tin-foil on the inner surface, while a similar metallic coating on the outside took the place of the experimenter's hand.

These jars are called _Leyden jars_, after the place in which the discovery was made.

About 1790, Professor Galvani, of Italy, observed that the legs of a freshly killed frog twitched at each discharge of an electrical machine.

Later he found that the same twitching occurred when he connected certain parts with a piece of copper and zinc.

He believed this to be due to "animal electricity" secreted within the frog.

Professor Volta, also of Italy, proved that Galvani's idea was wrong, and that the electricity resided in the metals rather than in the frog.

He showed that when two pieces of dissimilar metal were put in contact with one another, there was a slight transference of electricity between them.

He constructed a pile of copper and zinc discs, with a moist cloth between each pair or couple, and by connecting wires from the top copper disc to the lowest zinc disc he was able to show that an appreciable current of electricity was produced.

Later he placed a piece of copper and a piece of zinc in a vessel containing acidulated water, whereupon he found that a steady current of electricity was obtained.

This was the invention of electric batteries.

The phenomena of _magnetism_ were known to the ancients, but it was not until the nineteenth century that we found any real connection between electricity and magnetism.

In 1819, a Danish philosopher, Hans Christian Oersted, discovered that an electric current passing in a wire affected a magnet in its neighbourhood.

If the magnet was supported on a pivot, after the manner of a compass needle, it would turn round and take up a position at right angles to the wire carrying the electric current.

The molecular theory of magnetism presumes that every molecule of iron is a tiny magnet, having a north and south pole.

In a piece of unmagnetised iron, these tiny magnets are all lying so that they neutralise one another.

When they are turned round so that their north poles are all lying in one direction, then the iron is said to be magnetised.

The electron theory of magnetism does not do away with the older molecular theory just referred to.

The electron theory goes a step farther, and tells us that these molecules are magnets because of a steady motion of electrons around the atoms of iron.

It was discovered in 1825 that when an electric current was sent through an insulated wire wound around a piece of soft iron, the iron became a magnet; when the current was stopped the magnetism disappeared.

Such magnets are called _electro-magnets_.

If a piece of hard steel is treated in the same way it becomes a _permanent magnet_.

It was this intimate connection between electricity and magnetism, or, in other words, the invention of these electro-magnets, which brought us electric bells, telegraphs, telephones, dynamos, and electric motors.

It should be noted that while iron is attracted by either pole of a magnet, there is such a thing as magnetic repulsion.

This, however, takes place only between two magnets, and then only between like poles.

* * * * * Some German physicists made a number of electrical experiments with vacuum tubes.

When Sir William Crookes (England) was experimenting with similar vacuum tubes he suggested that matter was in a "radiant" state during the electric discharge within the tubes.

In 1880, H. A.

Lorentz, of Amsterdam, declared that light was due to the motion of small particles revolving around the atoms of matter.

Professor Zeeman, of Holland, produced experimental proof of Lorentz's theory.

He showed that the revolving "particles" were influenced by a powerful magnetic field, in the manner explained in the electron's story.

This discovery was made in 1896, or sixteen years after Lorentz's declaration.

It was Dr. Johnstone Stoney, of Dublin University (Ireland), who christened these particles "electrons."

The X-rays were observed for the first time by Professor Roentgen, of Germany, in 1895. The screens used for viewing the luminous effects produced by the X-rays are coated with very fine crystals of _barium platinocyanide_.

These screens were in use for another purpose previous to the discovery of X-rays.

We know now that _chemical affinity_ is merely electrical attraction between the atoms of matter.

The spectroscope consists of a glass prism, or series of prisms, mounted between two metal tubes.

One tube is provided at one end with a vertical slit, through which the light that is to be examined is passed.

At the other end of the tube is a lens, so that the beam of light from the slit emerges through the lens as a pencil of parallel rays.

The pencil of light then falls upon the glass prism, striking it at an angle.

In passing through the prism, the light is bent round so that it enters the second tube, which is simply a small telescope.

The prism separates the aether waves according to their wave-lengths, and produces the well-known coloured spectrum, which is magnified by the telescope.

The reason for the bending of the different waves is explained in the electron's story.

INDEX

Absorption of light, 148 Aether, the, 24 Aether waves, 96, 131, 133, 137, 146, 148, 163 Alpha rays from radium, 190 Alternating electric current, 121 Amber electrified, 32, 34 to 37, 201 Artificial light, 140, 142 Atoms breaking up, 188, 190 Atoms co-operating with electrons, 108, 123 Atom's internal energy, 187, 191 Atoms of matter, 52, 54, 78, 128, 180, 184 Attraction between atoms, 180 Attraction, electrical, 35, 202 Attraction, magnetic, 78, 205 Aurora, 132 Automatic telegraph transmitter, 91 Battery, electric, 70, 203 Beginning of the world, 53 Beta rays from radium, 189 Birth of the moon, 52, 54 Bricks of the universe, 180, 195 Chemical affinity, 206 Chemical combinations, 56, 182 Chemistry of the stars, 52, 55, 144, 153 Chlorine atoms, 56, 182 Cloud formation, 56 Circuit, earth, 72 Coherer, tube, 98 Cohesive force, 183 Colour, 136 Compass needle, 77 Complete electric circuit, 71 Conductors, 37, 68 Connecting link between aether and matter, 118, 127 Corpuscles, 66 Crookes, Sir William, 205 Current of electricity, 68 Dark lines in spectrum, 154 Detachable electrons, 78, 181 Detecting imitation diamonds, 174 Direct electric current, 121 Discharge of electricity, 42 Discharge through a vacuum, 60 Discovery of electrons, 160, 206 Discovery of X-rays, 169 Dynamo, 116, 118 Earth circuit, 72 Electrical discharge, 42 Electricity, positive, 23, 32, 39, 52, 180 Electricity, negative, 23, 32, 39 Electric battery, 70 Electric current, 68, 70 Electric motor, 116, 122 Electric shock, 47 Electrified objects, 37, 38, 201 Electro-magnets, 76, 81, 83, 118, 205 Electrodes, 61 Electrocution, 49 Electron as a go-between, 118 Electron, derivation of the word, 23 Electron, discovery of, 160, 206 Electrons, 25, 32, 66, 78, 138, 162, 195 Energy transmission through the aether, 73, 121 Energy within the atom, 187, 191 Field, magnetic, 68, 76, 118 Fluorescent screen, 169, 206 Galvani's discovery, 202 Gamma rays from radium, 189 Gilbert's discovery, 201 Glass, electrified, 37, 38 Glass prism, 147, 152 Glow-lamp, electric, 140, 141 Glow-worm, 142 Heat, radiant, 126, 131, 133, 142 Helium atoms, 188, 190 Hydrogen atoms, 55, 182 Insulators (non-conductors), 37, 47 Iron atoms, 77 Iron wires discarded, 88 Lamp, electric, 140 Leyden jar, 42, 202 Light, 23, 60, 64, 133 Light absorbed, 148 Light, artificial, 140, 142 Light, reflected, 148 Lightning, 42, 48 Lines in the spectrum, 152, 154, 160, 162 Lorentz's declaration, 206 Magnetic attraction, 78, 205 Magnetic field, 68, 76, 118 Magnetic repulsion, 205 Magnetism, 73, 76, 203, 204 Magnetism and electricity, 73 Magnets, electro-, 76, 81, 83, 205 Magnets, permanent, 83 Mariner's compass, 77 Matter, 52, 54 Metal electrified, 37, 38 Molecules of matter, 181, 183 Moon's birth, 52, 54 Morse telegraph, 88 Motion in line of sight, 162 Motor, electric, 116, 122 Negative electricity, 23, 32, 39 Oersted's discovery, 204 Oxygen atoms, 182 Permanent magnets, 82 Positive electricity, 23, 32, 39, 52, 180 Prism of glass, 147, 152 Radiant heat, 131, 133, 142 Radiant matter, 63, 205 Radium, 188 Rainbow, 147 Rays from radium, 189, 190 Reflection of light, 148 Repulsion, electrical, 202 Repulsion, magnetic, 205 Roentgen rays, 167 Roentgen's discovery, 168, 206 Sea, cause of saltness, 56 Shock, electric, 47 Silk, electrified, 38 Sodium atoms, 56, 182 Spark, electric, 44 Spectroscope, 152, 154, 207 Spectrum, 144, 147, 152, 154 Speed of electrons in conductor, 70 Stars approaching the earth, 162 Stars, constituents of the, 52, 55, 146 Stoney, Dr. Johnstone, 206 Sun, constituents of the, 154 Sun's heat, 128, 131 Telegraph signals, 90 Telegraphy, wireless, 95 Telephone, 109 Telephony, wireless, 110 Temperature, 180 Tramway, electric, 117, 118, 122 Transparent substances, 149 Vacuum tubes, 60, 61, 132, 205 Velocity of electrons, 70 Volta's discovery, 203 Waves in the aether, 96, 133, 137, 146, 148, 163 Wireless messages from the stars, 162 Wireless telegraphy, 95 Wireless telephony, 110 X-rays, 166, 206 X-rays from radium, 189 X-ray photography, 173 Zeeman proves existence of electrons, 161, 206 Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO. Edinburgh & London * * * * * Transcriber's Note The following changes have been made to the original text: Page xi: "always necessary, How" changed to "always necessary.

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