FUN WITH BROWN PAPER.
A good deal of amusement may lie had from a piece of thick woolly brown paper. Warm the paper, place it on the fable, and then brush it briskly in one direction with a clothes brush or the sleeve of your coat. Now hold tiie paper near your hose, and you will feel a cobwebby sensation, due to the electricity that has been generated on the surface of tiie paper. If you do this in the dark where everything is still you will see a spark pass between the paper and your nose, and will hear the crack. Electrify the paper again in the same way and place it against the wall. It will adhere without falling. Another experiment with the electrified paper is to draw a ping-pong ball along a polished wooden table, by the attraction of the electrified paper, without allowing the paper to touch the ball. An interesting game can be arranged by having two balls and two players, with electrified sheets of brown paper, who compete in a race of the balls across the table.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 236, 5 October 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)
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183FUN WITH BROWN PAPER. Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 236, 5 October 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)
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