 | James Mitchell - Mathematics - 1823 - 666 pages
...by Volta in 1800, and hence has been denominated the Voltaic pile. The apparatus first made by Volta consisted of a certain number of pairs of zinc and...plates separated from each other by pieces of wet cloih ; the arrangement being as follows: zinc, silver, wet cloth; zinc, silver, wet cloth, and so... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - Science - 1828 - 468 pages
...Volta in 1800, and thence has been denominated the Voltaic pile. The apparatus, as first made by Volta, consisted of a certain number of pairs of zinc and...separated from each other by pieces of wet cloth. Hence the arrangement was as follows : zinc, silver, wet cloth ; zinc, silver, wet cloth, and so on.... | |
 | George Crabb - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 434 pages
...called the galvanic battery, or voltaic pile. The apparatus first made by Volta, in 1800t consùtted of a certain number of pairs of zinc and silver plates,...the pieces of wet cloth being of the same size. He found this much more powerful when the pieces of cloth were moistened with a solution of common salt... | |
 | George Crabb - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 426 pages
...since been called the galvanic battery, or voltaic pile. The apparatus first made by Volta, in 1800, consisted of a certain number of pairs of zinc and...plates were chiefly pieces of coins, the plates of 2inc and the pieces of wet cloth being of the same size. He found this much more powerful when the... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - Chemistry - 1869 - 722 pages
...constructed with that view was called the voltaic pile. The apparatus as first made by Volta (Fig. 280) consisted of a certain number of pairs of zinc and...separated from each other by pieces of wet cloth. Hence the arrangement was as follows:- — zinc, silver, and wet cloth; zinc, silver, wet cloth, and... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - Electricity - 1873 - 180 pages
...constructed with that view was called the voltaic pile. The apparatus as first made by Volta (Fig. 92) consisted of a certain number of pairs of zinc and...separated from each other by pieces of wet cloth. Hence the arrangement was as follows: — zinc, silver, and wet cloth; zinc, silver, wet cloth, and... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - 1877 - 764 pages
...constructed with that view was called the voltaic pile. The apparatus as first made by Volta (Fig. 280) consisted of a certain number of pairs of zinc and...separated from each other by pieces of wet cloth. Hence the arrangement was as follows:- — zinc, silver, and wet cloth; zinc, silver, wet cloth, and... | |
 | William Barlow (of Muswell Hill.) - 1885 - 422 pages
...discoverer of this means of liberating electricity, originally experimented with, consists of a pile of a number of pairs of zinc and silver plates, separated from each other by pieces of wet cloth. Hence, the order of the layers, starting, say, from the bottom, is zinc, wet cloth, silver, zinc, wet... | |
 | Business etiquette - 1897 - 392 pages
...which is employed in generating galvanism. "Galvanic pile,'' the apparatus first made by Volla, which consisted of a certain number of pairs of zinc and...pieces of wet cloth, in the order of zinc, silver, and wet cloth im regular succession. The materials usually employed now are copper and zinc in alternate... | |
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Hence the arrangement was as follows:- — zinc, silver, and wet cloth; zinc, silver, wet cloth, and so on. The silver plates were chiefly silver coins, the plates of zinc and the pieces of cloth being of the same size. He found this pile much more powerful... 