Excerpt from Johns Hopkins University Circulars, Vol. 10: February, 1891
That a thing is conceivable and that it is demonstrated are not equivalent. Nevertheless, the behavior of water, alcohol and other conducting liquids as cited in the foregoing pages, and as given by other observers, seems to me to afford very strong reasons for attributing to these electrolytes a genuine specific inductive capacity.
This investigation was carried on under the general direction of Professor A. L. Kimball of the Johns Hopkins University. The experiments were made at the Physical Laboratory of the University of Wisconsin, and I take pleasure in acknowledging my obligation to Professor J. E. Davies, who generously placed at my disposal the utmost resources of his laboratory, and who furnished me with the beautiful rotating commutator, which was constructed from my design in the University machine shops.
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