Translations:Introduction to Dielectricity & Capacitance (Eric P. Dollard)/10/en

Lines of Force as Representation of Dielectricity

Steinmetz continues [ p. 14 ], There is obviously no more sense in thinking of the capacity current as current which charges the conductor with a quantity of electricity, than there is of speaking of the inductance voltage as charging the conductor with a quantity of magnetism. But the latter conception, together with the notion of a quantity of magnetism, etc., has vanished since Faraday’s representation of the magnetic field by lines of force.