Voltaic+electricity
61History of electrochemistry — Electrochemistry, a branch of chemistry, went through several changes during its evolution from early principles related to magnets in the early 16th and 17th centuries, to complex theories involving conductivity, electrical charge and… …
62Electromagnetism — Electricity · …
63Royal Institution Christmas Lectures — Michael Faraday delivering a Christmas Lecture in 1856. The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each year since 1825. The lectures present… …
64Frog battery — Matteucci s frog battery, 1845 (top left); Aldini s frog battery, 1818 (bottom); apparatus for controlled exposure of gases to frog battery (top right). A frog battery is an electrochemical battery consisting of a number of dead frogs (or… …
65physical science — physical scientist. 1. any of the natural sciences dealing with inanimate matter or with energy, as physics, chemistry, and astronomy. 2. these sciences collectively. [1835 45] * * * Introduction the systematic study of the inorganic world …
66Robert Were Fox the Younger — Robert Were Fox FRS (26 April 1789 ndash; 25 July 1877) was an English geologist, natural philosopher and inventor.He is known mainly for his work on the temperature of the earth and his construction of a compass to measure magnetic dip at sea.… …
67Electrostatics — For a less technical introduction, see Static electricity. Electromagnetism …
68La Rive, Auguste-Arthur de — ▪ French physicist born Oct. 9, 1801, Geneva, Switz. died Nov. 27, 1873, Marseille, Fr. Swiss physicist who was one of the founders of the electrochemical theory of batteries. La Rive was elected to the chair of natural philosophy at… …
69Gian Domenico Romagnosi — (December 11, 1761 ndash; June 8, 1835) was an Italian philosopher, economist and jurist.Romagnosi was born in Salsomaggiore Terme. He is believed to be the first person to publish, in 1802, an account suggesting a relationship between… …
70John Peter Gassiot — FRS (2 April 1797 – 15 August 1877) was an English businessman and amateur scientist and who was particularly associated with public demonstrations of electrical phenomena and the development of the Royal Society.LifeBorn in London, he joined the …
