The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 220
changedthe method of producing electricity. One wasLuigi Galvani, who was born at Bologna, Italy,»n ^7Z7> and died there in 1798. The other andgreater was Alessandro Volta, born in 1745, atComo, where he died in 1827. Galvani, when experimenting with an electricmachine, found that the legs of a… … 409 410 SOME FAMOUS EXPLORERS AND INVENTORS the twitching renewed the moment the coppertouched the iron. Galvani declared that the elec-tricity existed in the tissues of the frog. When Volta heard of this, he set to work toprove that the body of the frog did not containthe electricity. He argued…
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