 In one series of experiments, the period of a torsion pendulum situated inside a Faraday cage, with the pendulum and the cage connected by a conducting path, was observed to increase as the voltage on the cage was increased.In another experiment, the period of the pendulum was seen to increase during an eclipse.Saxl is reported to have attempted, without success, to get this work published in the "Physical Review"; eventually the work was published in "Nature".