V. Experimental researches in electricity

TLDR

Induction refers to the ability of electric currents to induce states in nearby matter, with known effects such as magnetization and various experiments, yet many potential effects remain unexplored. The author intends to use the concept of induction in the present paper. The paper lists items numbered 1 and 2.

Abstract

1. The power which electricity of tension possesses of causing' an opposite electrical state in its vicinity has been expressed by the general term Induction; which, as it has been received into scientific language, may also, with propriety, be used in the same general sense to express the power which electrical currents may possess of inducing any particular state upon matter in their immediate neighbourhood, otherwise indifferent. It is with this meaning that I purpose using it in the present paper. 2. Certain effects of the induction of electrical currents have already been recognised and described: as those of magnetization; Ampere’s experiments of bringing a copper disc near to a flat spiral; his repetition with electromagnets of Arago’s extraordinary experiments, and perhaps a few others. Still i appeared unlikely that these could be all the effects induction by currents could produce; especially as, upon dispensing with iron, almost the whole of them disappear, whilst yet an infinity of bodies, exhibiting definite phenomena of induction with electricity of tension, still remain to be acted upon by the induction of electricity in motion.