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...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...
...long-standing fame flares again. People who all their lives have lived by means of the devices he has invented and inspired, people who have forgotten there were an Alessandro Volta, an André Marie Ampère, a Georg Simon Ohm in, a Charles Augustin de Coulomb, a Luigi Galvani or a James Watt, are reminded that there still is a Nikola Tesla (pronounced Tcshlah) who long ago rave them the Tesla induction motor which made alternating current practical, and the Tesla transformer which steps up oscillating currents to high potentials (15,000,000 volts he avers, with...
...Last week was the death centenary of the man who first understood that electricity flows in currents measurable in pressure units. "Volts" and "voltage" were the work of Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), professor of experimental physics at the University of Pavia, Italy. His compatriot and contemporary, Luigi Galvani of Bologna, observing the spasms caused in dead frogs' muscles by contact with mixed metals and moisture had deduced that the muscles contained electricity. Volta examined the theory of "galvanism" and traced electricity, not to the muscles, but to the mixed metals and moisture. He piled pairs of silver and zinc...
Bologna also produced Luigi Galvani, in the 18th Century, whose experiments with electricity and the nerves and muscles of the legs of frogs gave rise to "galvanism" and kindred terms. But it was not until the end of the 19th Century that Bologna again made a contribution of truly world-wide proportions. After the sausage came wireless telegraphy, whose founder's marital vicissitudes loomed in the press last week as his works do every week...
...been known to mankind for more than 2,000 year, but only during the last ten years has it been used practically for lighting. The electricity generated by friction, when discharged gives a spark of great brilliancy but of very short duration. The discoveries in chemical electricity, by Galvani, and in induced currents, by Faraday, were the greatest strides in our knowledge of the properties of electricity...