the article on electricity. Out of an old bottle he would not desert his high vocation for emolwuent, he often Society of London, his startling discovery of the “ Magneti- constructed his first electrical machine, and out of a medi- did it at the call of his government, of humanity, cine phial a… … tution, Davy started upon his prolonged visit to the Conti- spell by which he had hitherto bound them. nent, and Faraday accompanied him as secretary and chemi- Though he was less dramatic, we might almost cal assistant. His own modest merits were not altogether say less theatrical, in his style of…
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