Date: 1840
j From this it would appear that the steam of both boilers was in the same electrical condition.  During the whole of these experiments the engine was doing < its work as usual, occasionally going and occasionally standing; j but no difference was observed in the electricity given off by t the steam.  1 have been most careful to supply an exact account of the facts ofthis extraordinary, and, as far as I know, unprecedented ease, but I do not offer any theory to account for the pheno- j inena.