The Effect of Gravity on an Electroscope

An electric... An electroscope is essentially a metal rod, suspended vertically with a metal ball at the top and two light metal strips hanging underneath. The charges from the charged objects are going to flow into the metal ball and then down through the metal rod and onto the small light metal strips. If they don't move up at all, like there's literally no movement, then the initial object wasn't charged because nothing happened. So that's an electroscope. It's sort of similar in its basic obliteration to a vandograph generator, which uses a band which spins around rubbing off electrons and the electrons move onto a top metal ball - your hair will stand on end.