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Word: galvani (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quantitatively, the result at present is not significant," concedes Rabinowitch. (Neither, he might have added, was Galvani's first circuit, in 1790.) "But qualitatively it is important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Perpetual Power? | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...frequent lower-case spelling of Diesel but to spotlight the fact that the name of the engine had eclipsed the name of the man. Some other scientific words (besides watt and ampere) from the names of great pioneers: ohm, coulomb, gauss, henry, maxwell, gilbert, volt (from Volta), galvanize (from Galvani...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 3, 1941 | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

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