英语词汇“electrical sportsman”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. More fully electrical sportsman. A toy comprising a Leyden jar and a metallic figure of a sportsman aiming a rifle, which can be brought close to the knob of the jar, so allowing it to discharge with a loud spark. Now historical.The jar is typically made with a second knob to which small pith figures of birds are attached. Charging the jar causes these to be mutually repelled and raised; on discharge, they lose their charge and fall as if shot.

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1829 Mechanics' Mag. 1 Aug. 389/2 Electrical sportsman. Spinning sealing-wax.

1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts (at cited word) Electrical Sportsman, an amusing and ingenious instrument, to illustrate the fact that a charged electrical jar will discharge itself if the outer and inner coating approach too closely.

1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xxix. §5598 Gas pistol, thunder house, sportsmen, and other instrument[s] for showing the proportion of frictional electricity.

2005 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 15 205 The list of apparatus includes a large box containing an electric battery composed of 18 Leyden jars, a mahogany Thunder House, an electric sportsman, [etc.].

单词	electrical sportsman
释义	> as lemmas electrical sportsman 2. More fully electrical sportsman. A toy comprising a Leyden jar and a metallic figure of a sportsman aiming a rifle, which can be brought close to the knob of the jar, so allowing it to discharge with a loud spark. Now historical.The jar is typically made with a second knob to which small pith figures of birds are attached. Charging the jar causes these to be mutually repelled and raised; on discharge, they lose their charge and fall as if shot. ΚΠ 1829 Mechanics' Mag. 1 Aug. 389/2 Electrical sportsman. Spinning sealing-wax. 1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts (at cited word) Electrical Sportsman, an amusing and ingenious instrument, to illustrate the fact that a charged electrical jar will discharge itself if the outer and inner coating approach too closely. 1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xxix. §5598 Gas pistol, thunder house, sportsmen, and other instrument[s] for showing the proportion of frictional electricity. 2005 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 15 205 The list of apparatus includes a large box containing an electric battery composed of 18 Leyden jars, a mahogany Thunder House, an electric sportsman, [etc.]. extracted from sportsmann. < as lemmas
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