voltaic electricity
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of voltaic electricity
First recorded in 1810–20
Example Sentences
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What I mean is, that no electricity is evolved in any way, due or related to the causes which excite voltaic electricity, or proportionate to them.
From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Faraday, Michael
According to Dr. Davy60, the current deflected the needle and made magnets under the same law, as to direction, which governs currents of ordinary and voltaic electricity.
From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Faraday, Michael
Many intelligent people have failed to apprehend the vast difference between the low tension of voltaic electricity and frictional electricity, lightning being in the nature of the latter.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science by Various
As heated air discharges common electricity with far greater facility than points, I hoped that voltaic electricity might in this way also be discharged.
From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Faraday, Michael
But when, as we have seen, voltaic electricity entered the field, electricity became a more powerful and tractable servant, and distant intelligent signals became one of its first labors.
From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry
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