Word: pavia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...pauses by a studded door like the Sire de Maletroit's door in Stevenson and is vastly relieved to find it unlocked. Within is a tawny-headed damsel who, after she has concealed the handsome fugitive, quite alters his plan to study Greek at the University of Pavia. No lady of Renaissance Italy so fair and mettlesome as this Valeria but was meshed in intrigue from her dainty toes to her pearl-sewn caul. And no stalwart like lucky Bellarion but would have rejoiced as he to exchange a philosophical career for swordplay in her service. This swordplay, these...
...Plaza Del Almeria, the courtyard of the Royal Palace, a regiment of the Madras Hussars of Pavia was drawn up in honor of the Ambassador. Count Velle conducted him within. There Alphonso received him with the majesty of a sovereign, with the handclasp of a good fellow...
This epitomizes the work of Professor Gaetano Fichera, upon which he has lavished a great part of his life and most of his private fortune, at Pavia, Italy. His discovery of the artificial serum he will announce at the meeting of the Medical Section of the League of Nations, at Rome, next month...