Lexicographical Neighbors of Tinfoils
Literary usage of Tinfoils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by Éleuthère Élie Nicolas Mascart, Jules François Joubert (1888)
"The two tinfoils are charged with opposite electricities, and in the same ...
When the pressure is removed, the tinfoils, passing through the neutral state, ..."
2. The Electrical Researches of ... Henry Cavendish, F. R. S.: Written Between by Henry Cavendish (1879)
"With D° charge through deal, tinfoils at 1 inc., nona With 3 rows to 1J; received
shock through beech, tinfoils at 4J inc. dist, about as strong as ..."
3. Workshop Receipts by Ernest Spon, Charles George Warnford Lock, Robert Haldane (1889)
"The condenser is laid on the loose board g, with the projecting tinfoils ...
a hole being punched through each set of tinfoils to admit the screw-pin; ..."
4. A Physical Treatise on Eletricity and Magnetism by James Edward Henry Gordon (1880)
"The tinfoils are made smaller than the insulator in order that they may be ...
The two tinfoils act as the inner and outer coatings of a Leyden jar. ..."
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