1. Often the electroscope will have a pair of suspended pith balls. 2. :Well, the electroscope is obviously losing negative charge somehow. 3. The Braun electroscope replaced the gold-leaf electroscope for more accurate measurements. 4. The Braun electroscope replaced the gold-leaf electroscope for more accurate measurements. 5. Julian is amazed by a television-like device, called the electroscope . 6. The electroscope 's glass jar is the capacitor's dielectric material. 7. The electroscope now contains a net charge opposite in polarity to that of the charged object. 8. The gold-leaf electroscope was one of the first sensitive instruments used to indicate electric charge. 9. Electroscopes work nicely by induction . talk ) 02 : 17, 17 February 2009 ( UTC)10. The charge is held in the top of the electroscope terminal by the attraction of the inducing charge.