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1734 tr. C. F. de C. Du Fay in Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 264 A Body of the vitreous Electricity [Fr. l'électricité vitrée], for Example, repels all such as are of the same Electricity; and..attracts all those of the resinous Electricity.

1754 B. Franklin New Exper. & Observ. Electr. 123 I have reported in this and former papers relating to positive and negative electricity.

1765 Ann. Reg. 1764 90/2 (heading) A letter in the Dutch Philosophical Transactions, on the animal electricity of the conger-eel.

1776 tr. G. Beccaria Treat. Artific. Electr. iv. iv. 297 Its use was to fix one of the extremities of the long iron wire with which they used..to observe the state of the atmospheric electricity.

1800 Philos. Mag. 7 337 Mr. Carlisle had been making some experiments which were likely to lead to some important discovery in Galvanic electricity.

1832 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) II. Galvanism. iv. §30. 12 The circulation of voltaic electricity produces an elevation of temperature.

1860 R. W. Emerson Wealth in Conduct of Life 102 The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity.

1936 W. Seifriz Protoplasm xviii. 334 The experiment of Galvani on muscle contraction was the first in electrophysiology and among the first in dynamic, or galvanic, electricity.

1966 R. Webster Pract. Gemmol. (ed. 4) xviii. 179 Amber... It exhibits negative frictional electricity, that is it will pick up small pieces of tissue paper after being rubbed briskly on a cloth.

2002 F. Close et al. Particle Odyssey ii. 31 He soon abandoned the experiments with his ‘cloud chamber’, and turned instead to work on atmospheric electricity.