Electrized

Resin, pitch, sealing-wax, caoutchouc, sulphur, gutta-percha, and generally all bodies commonly termed resinous, besides a great variety of others, will be found to acquire, after friction, the power of attracting light bodies, and hence will be said, according to a limitation of terms already accepted, to be in an electrized or electrified state .

As experiments teach us that all bodies in nature upon being rubbed acquire one or the other of these two electricities, the following law is deduced […] That there is attraction between an electrized body and a body that is not so.

When an electrized body is presented to an insulated conducting body, signs of electricity are developed, even though the bodies are a greater or less distance apart .