Lecture

 1 III|       the ends of the wires to touch] - that is the electric
 2 V  |      hardly possible for me to touch it without making it electrical;
 3 V  |       by the glass handle, and touch the conductor with it, I
 4 V  |         and I have only now to touch this piece of gun-cotton
 5 V  |    stops in this ball. I might touch it with the wire or with
 6 V  |        the skin; whereas, if I touch that cylinder, however rapidly,
 7 V  |        take a rod of metal and touch the machine with it, I lower
 8 V  |      the indicator; but when I touch it with a rod of glass,
 9 V  |        if I make one end of it touch the outside, and the other
10 V  |     the outside, and the other touch the knob at the top, see
11 VI | together, and allowing them to touch, you see what a coating
12 VI |       matters not whether they touch in the fluid or outside;