THOSE who experimentalise with the usual form of gold-leaf electroscope must know well that the instrument requires a vast amount of preparation and drying before it is ready for use, and also that in ...

Background on gold-leaf type electroscope by Société Centrale de Produits Chimiques, Object ID 1994.0125.16 A gold-leaf type electroscope is a device used to detect the presence of electric charge on ...

THE gold-leaf electroscope, simple as it is, has proved itself to be an excellent instrument for showing the properties of statical electricity; but usually it has this drawback, namely, that it does ...

Editor's Note: The last electroscope I used employed gold leaves or pith balls to indicate charge, but here's an electronic version with no moving parts. Though one of our reviewers felt the design ...

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