Lexicographical Neighbors of Pithballs
Literary usage of Pithballs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elementary treatise on physics, experimental and applied by [Adolphe] Ganot (1868)
"... with 1 base, on which are some pithballs. The tubulure has a metal cap, b
which passes a brass rod, provided with a metallic disc or sphere lower end, ..."
2. The School of Mines Quarterly by Columbia University School of Chemistry (1899)
"A pair of pithballs were suspended from each end of each wire. Electrifying any
particular wire by connecting it with a static machine caused the ..."
3. The School of Mines Quarterly by Columbia University School of Chemistry (1899)
"A pair of pithballs were suspended from each end of each wire. Electrifying any
particular wire by connecting it with a static machine caused the ..."
4. The Electric Theory of Astronomy by Benjamin Taylor Kavanaugh, Cranston and Stowe, Cincinnati (1886)
"The repelling force existing in each planet against all others is demonstrated
by the experiment of the pithballs npon an electric machine. ..."
5. An Intermediate Course of Mechanics by Alfred William Porter (1905)
"Two electrified pithballs, hung by two silk threads from one point, repel one
another ... If the pithballs each weigh 1 gram, find the force between them ? ..."
6. Philosophical Magazine (1805)
"... and indeed a considerable degree of care is requisite in ascertaining the kind
of electricity indicated by the divergency of pithballs, as a stronger ..."
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