Wollaston

Examples

• It originated with Volta, Cruikshank, and Wollaston in the very first year of the century. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Palladium and rhodium were reduced by Wollaston in 1804. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Wollaston and Gay-Lussac, both great chemists, applied Dalton's discovery to wide and most important fields in the chemical arts. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Sir Humphry Davy, Wollaston, Nicholson, and Carlisle. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Dr. Wollaston succeeded in obtaining a wire of platinum only 1/30000th of an inch in diameter. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was at Wollaston Island, near Cape Horn, however, that Darwin saw savage men held in extremity by the hard conditions of life, and at bay. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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