. Animal mechanism: a treatise on terrestrial and aerial locomotion. Animal locomotion. 58 ANIMAL MECHANISM. instant (f\ and the electricity of its discharges was collected by means of conducting wires which scut it to the nerve of the//-"// siijiml. This would give its shock at the point (<).. Fio. 12.—Mrn«ur • of tlio tinio wtv'ch elapses between the excitation of thu electric; nuive, and the discharge of the torpedo. The difference (g t] would express the time consumed by the torpedo between the excitation of its nerve and the dis- charge. By varying the experiment, as we have done
. Animal mechanism: a treatise on terrestrial and aerial locomotion. Animal locomotion. 58 ANIMAL MECHANISM. instant (f\ and the electricity of its discharges was collected by means of conducting wires which scut it to the nerve of the//-"// siijiml. This would give its shock at the point (<).. Fio. 12.—Mrn«ur • of tlio tinio wtv'ch elapses between the excitation of thu electric; nuive, and the discharge of the torpedo. The difference (g t] would express the time consumed by the torpedo between the excitation of its nerve and the dis- charge. By varying the experiment, as we have done for the motive nerves (page 43), we obtain the measure of the rapidity of the electric nervous agent, and that of the lost time in the torpedo apparatus.* Finally, in order to measure the duration of the electrical action, we had recourse to a method which consists in col- lecting this discharge during a very short time (l-100th of a second) to send it to the frog sii/nal, and varying gradually the instant at which the electricity of the torpedo was collected. It was thus ascertained that starting from the point (/.) one might, during 1 -1-lOOthsof a second, obtain a series of signals from the frog—t', t", t'", t"", but that beyond that time the frog gave no signals, thus proving that the discharge had terminated. \Ve have not been able to follow out farther the compari- son "T Hie electric with the muscular action; but, according to the result, already furnished by experiment, we can foresee ' Deprived iif appropriate apparatus, we have Leon olili^od to construct for oursehi > a kind <if registering instnimriit which should measure short int«T\.ils "if time with snlliciciit precision. We refer the reader, for the iti iin;_' instruments already Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not per
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