Electricity for public schools and colleges (1891)
Larden, W. (Walter), b. 1855 or 6 · London : Longmans · leaf 191
storical account of this or of any portionof our subject. But we must mention that experiment of Galvaniswhich, perhaps more than any other, started Volta on his veryfruitful line of inquiry. In the figure, Z C is a compound bar of zinc and copper, asindicated by the two letters employed. The zinc… … was first performed in 1786. Galvani considered that the metalsacted merely as conductors to complete the circuit of animalelectricity, and followed out this idea in further investigations.As we do not intend to discuss in the present Course the relationsof electricity to physiology, we shall not…
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