Experimental researches in electricity
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Experimental researches in electricity
（Cambridge library collection, . Physical sciences）
Cambridge University Press, c2012
- v. 1
- v. 2
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"This edition first published 1849. This digitally printed version 2012"--T.p. verso of v. 1
Reproduction of: London : Richard and John Edward Taylor, 1844-
Description and Table of Contents
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v. 1 ISBN 9781108053570
Description
Originally apprenticed to a bookbinder, Michael Faraday (1791-1867) began to attend Sir Humphrey Davy's chemistry lectures purely out of interest. Although he soon recognised that science would be his vocation, there was no defined career path to follow, and when he applied to Davy for work he was gently told to 'attend to the bookbinding'. It was only after a laboratory explosion in which Davy partially lost his sight that Faraday was taken on as his amanuensis. From this difficult beginning stemmed perhaps the most famous scientific career of the nineteenth century. This three-volume collection of Faraday's papers provides a comprehensive record of a key branch of his work. Volume 1, reissued here in a second edition of 1849, covers his early work in electricity and magnetism, including papers on lightning, electric fish, and notes on the elaborate and often beautiful experiments conducted to investigate whether magnetism could produce electricity.
Table of Contents
- 1. Induction of electric currents
- 2. Terrestrial magneto-electric induction
- 3. Identity of electricities from different sources
- 4. New law of electric conduction
- 5. Electro-chemical decomposition
- 6. Power of platina, etc. to induce combination
- 7. Electro-chemical decomposition continued
- 8. Electricity of the voltaic pile
- 9. Induction of a current on itself
- 10. Improved voltaic battery
- 11. On static induction
- 12. Conduction or conductive discharge
- 13. Disruptive discharge as glow
- 14. Nature of the electric force or forces.
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v. 2 ISBN 9781108053587
Description
Originally apprenticed to a bookbinder, Michael Faraday (1791-1867) began to attend Sir Humphrey Davy's chemistry lectures purely out of interest. Although he soon recognised that science would be his vocation, there was no defined career path to follow, and when he applied to Davy for work he was gently told to 'attend to the bookbinding'. It was only after a laboratory explosion in which Davy partially lost his sight that Faraday was taken on as his amanuensis. From this difficult beginning stemmed perhaps the most famous scientific career of the nineteenth century. This three-volume collection of Faraday's papers provides a comprehensive record of a key branch of his work. Volume 2, first published in 1844, includes essays on the illusions caused by lightning, the chemistry of a voltaic pile, and his defence against accusations that the idea behind his electromagnetic motor was stolen from another physicist.
Table of Contents
- 15. On the character and direction of the electric force of the Gymnotus
- 16. On the source of power in the voltaic pile
- 17. The exciting chemical force affected by temperature
- 18. On the electricity evolved by the friction of water and steam against other bodies.
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