Galvanic
[gæl'vænɪk]
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents.
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Examples
- The Professor enjoyed it too, he eyed her with strange, large blue eyes, full of galvanic fire. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The pendulum of the controlling clock, in swinging to either side, makes a brief contact, which completes the circuit of a galvanic battery, and thus sends a current to the controlled clock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Six weeks after he arrived he began his first course of lectures, taking for his subject the history of galvanism, and the various methods of accumulating galvanic influence. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The discovery of galvanic electricity by Galvani--1786-1790. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Page, of America, in 1837, on the _Production of Galvanic Music_, in which was described how musical notes were transmitted and reproduced by an interrupted magnetic circuit. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He showed the effects of galvanism on the legs of frogs, and exhibited some interesting experiments on the galvanic effects on the solutions o f metals in acids. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Page's Production of Galvanic Music and Researches of Reis. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It happened when he was studying in Paris, and just at the time when, over and above his other work, he was occupied with some galvanic experiments. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This principle of galvanic protection, however, was found to be applicable to many other purposes. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The galvanic influence on a magnetic needle by Romagnosi (1802) Oersted (1820). William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The galvanic or voltaic battery by Volta in 1800. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He experimented with galvanic electricity, and increased the powers of Volta’s Galvanic Pile. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Easels and plastercasts were mixed with type-moulds and galvanic batteries, and Morse turned from a portrait to his working model of telegraph transmitter and back again a dozen times a day. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- And so drops asleep, and has galvanic starts all over him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He proceeded with his experiments on animals and animal matter, and developed the doctrine and theories of what is known as animal or galvanic electricity. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And in the same year and in 1830 he produced those powerful magnets through which the energy of a galvanic battery was used to lift hundreds of tons of weight. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Don't be galvanic, sir! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Thus the art of electrolysis--the decomposition of substances by the galvanic current, was established. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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