Assertion: circuit | /r/CapableOf | produce oscillation
Facets:
value: unsuccessfully
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Independently, in the same year, George Francis FitzGerald realized that if the damping resistance in a resonant circuit could be made zero or negative, the circuit would produce oscillations, and, unsuccessfully, tried to build a negative resistance oscillator with a dynamo, what would now be called a parametric oscillator.