The voltaic battery was an alarm bell to experimenters in every part of Europe ; and it served no less for demonstrating new properties in electricity, and for establishing the laws of this science, than as an instrument of discovery in other branches... Journal of the Chemical Society - Page 564by Chemical Society (Great Britain) - 1900Full view - About this book
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1837 - 650 pages
...electricity, the author observes, in reference to this period, that " the voltaic battery was an alarm bell to experimenters in every part of Europe ; and it...of knowledge; exhibiting relations between subjects apparently before without connexion, and serving as a bond of unity between chemical and physical philosophy."... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1908 - 692 pages
...electrolytic decomposition of water. Davy himself has said : — " The voltaic battery was an alarm bell to experimenters in every part of Europe ; and it...of unity between chemical and physical philosophy." We owe it to Sir Joseph Banks that Volta's great discovery was first made known to English men of science,... | |
| Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1896 - 256 pages
...April 30th, 1800, of the electro lytic decomposition of water. As Davy said, " the voltaic battery was an alarm-bell to experimenters in every part of Europe...of unity between chemical and physical philosophy." The capital discovery of Volta was made known in England at the earliest possible moment through the... | |
| 1900 - 440 pages
...Society, capable of unfolding its wonderful and mysterious laws." Volta's famous letter of March 2oth, 1800, to Sir Joseph Banks, was as the " order of the...branches of knowledge; exhibiting relations between subjeeks before apparently without connection, and serving as a bond of unity between chemical and... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1912 - 1316 pages
...was an alarm bell to experimenters in every part of Europe; and it served no less for demonstratiimg new properties in electricity, and for establishing...science, than as an instrument of discovery in other bnmmichmes of kmmowledge: exhibiting relations between subjects before aJ)I)al'emmtly without connection,... | |
| Larry J. Schaaf, William Henry Fox Talbot - 1996 - 457 pages
...who had identified the call that was to appeal so strongly to this generation: "The voltaic battery was as an alarm-bell to experimenters in every part...subjects before apparently without connection, and sen ing as a bond of unity between chemical and physical philosophy." 40 Freely intermingled amongst... | |
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