According to Monsieur Peltier, the terrestrial globe is completely negative, and inter-planetary space positive; the atmosphere itself has no electricity, and is only in a passive state; so that the effects observed are due to the relative influence of these two great stores of electricity.
Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785–1845), French physicist, documented the Peltier effect
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