voltaic electricity
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of voltaic electricity
First recorded in 1810–20
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Significantly, Grove also went on to say that as “it seems probable that at no very distant period voltaic electricity may become a useful means of locomotion, the arrangement of batteries so as to produce the greatest power in the smallest space becomes important”.
From Scientific American
The late experiments of Mr. Crosse seemed to show that insects were produced in silicate of potash under a long-continued action of voltaic electricity.
From Project Gutenberg
Theodore, founds the Royal Society, 14.Huyghens's explanation of double refraction, 219;principle, 218.Hydrogen, electro-chemical equivalent of, 267.I.Ice-pail experiment of Faraday, 270.Identity of frictional and voltaic electricity, 266.Induced currents, discovered by Faraday, 259;explained by structure of ether, 304;from earth's action, 262.Induction coil, 320.Induction,
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Faraday's next series of researches was devoted to the experimental proof of the identity of frictional and voltaic electricity.
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He identifies the nervous fluid with galvanism and voltaic electricity, and asserts that by a galvanic battery all the results can be obtained which mesmerism claims as its own.
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