 This disclosure was made in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London, dated March 20, 1800. Before this letter was published in the Philosophical Transactions its contents had become known to London physicists, and Nicholson...  Papers on Radiation, Chemistry: 1901-1912 - Page 148by Smithsonian Institution - 1901Full view - About this book
 | 1905
...spectators of the ascent was Benjamin Franklin, who could not refrain from expressing his admiration in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of England, in which the great American philosopher displays his humorous style in these terms: Some months... | |
 | Washington International geographical congress. 8th (etc., 1904) - 1905 - 1154 pages
...spectators of the ascent was Benjamin Franklin, who could not refrain from expressing his admiration in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of England, in which the great American philosopher displays his humorous style in these terms: Some months... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1907 - 666 pages
...of mixed gases — 14,600 for one-third of a cubic inch. A little later Ritter found that 50 or 60 discharges from a Leyden jar through a solution of...Nicholson and Carlisle had decomposed water by means of Volta "s pile. Carlisle made the acute observation that when a drop of water was placed on the upper... | |
 | Hugh Chisholm - 1910 - 1012 pages
...destroyed by a disastrous fire on the 8th uf July 1890. Volla's description oí bis pile was communicated in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London, on the ¿oth of March iSoo, and was printed in the Phil. Trans., vol. QO, pt i, p 405. It was then... | |
 | 1910 - 1098 pages
...destroyed by a disastrous fire on the 8th of July 1899. Volta's description of his pile was communicated in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London, on the 2o(h of March 1800, and was printed in the Phil. Tram., vol. oo, pt i,p. 405. It was then found... | |
 | 1910 - 1018 pages
...by a disastrous fire on the Slh oi Jar/ i8go. Volta's description of his pile was communicated ш » letter to Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London, on the roih of March iSoo, and was printed in the r*W. Trans., vol. oo, pt. i, p. 405. It was.then... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1907 - 668 pages
...electrolytic decomposition when Volta disclosed his invention of the. dry pile and the voltaic battery, or u crown of cups." This disclosure was made in a letter...Nicholson and Carlisle had decomposed water by means of Volta 's pile. Carlisle made the acute observation that when a drop of water was placed on the upper... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1879 - 596 pages
...Annals of Electricity, etc. March 1839, vol. iii, p. 440. t Volta's description of hin battery is given in a "Letter to Sir Joseph Banks," president of the Royal Society of London. (Phil. Trans. R. 8. read June 2b', 1800, vol. xc, pp. 403-4:U.) respective poles of the battery with... | |
 | Per F Dahl - 1997 - 558 pages
...new epoch in electrical experimentation. On March 20 1800 Alessandro Volta of Como, Italy, announced in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society, his discovery of a method of producing a continuous current of electricity. Because England and France... | |
 | Thomas S. Kuhn - 2000 - 356 pages
...notable, among other things, for Volta's discovery of the electric battery. That discovery was announced in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. 7 It was intended for publication and was accompanied by the illustration reproduced here as figure... | |
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