galvanic battery
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of galvanic battery
First recorded in 1795–1805
Example Sentences
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At 4 the two cords are rapped together, loaded with trace chains a fathom apart and carried ashore to the galvanic battery.
From A brief sketch of the work of Matthew Fontaine Maury during the war, 1861-1865 by Maury, Richard L.
The first form of the galvanic battery was the result of Volta's investigations, and was called the Voltaic pile.
From The Telephone An Account of the Phenomena of Electricity, Magnetism, and Sound, as Involved in Its Action by Dolbear, A. E. (Amos Emerson)
The legs seemed to move from force of habit—a corpse on foot, with a concealed galvanic battery somewhere.
From H. R. by Lefevre, Edwin
It is placed in connection with the wires of the galvanic battery.
From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Knight, Charles
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.
From Modern Magic by Vere, Maximilian Schele de
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