Volta

Examples

• Volta of Pavia, took decided issue with Galvani and maintained that the pretended animal electricity was nothing but electricity developed by the contact of two different metals. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• With the Volta prize he founded the Volta Laboratory in Washington for the use of students. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• 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.
• 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.
• The pile and cup battery of Volta had been succeeded by the trough battery--a long box filled with separated plates set in dilute acid. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• With the first year of the new century came Volta's invention of the chemical battery as a means of producing electricity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The discoveries of Galvani and Volta at once set leading scientists at work. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In 1880 the government of France awarded him the Volta prize of fifty thousand francs and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The focus of his scientific interest, however, rested on the furtherance of the application of the electrical studies of Galvani and Volta in chemical analysis. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The development of the battery began with Galvani in 1790, and Volta in 1800. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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