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July 31, 1904Proceedings of the Royal Society of London

The sparking distance between electrically charged surfaces.— Preliminary note.

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Abstract

Lord Kelvin first made systematic measurement of the relation between potential difference and sparking distance. He noticed that these factors do not vary in proportion and he surmised that this might be due to “ the air near dense bodies being condensed and so becoming a better insulator.“

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P. E. Shaw (1904) studied this question.

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