with which the charcoal and zinc of the voltaic couple became rapidly coated in the course of the operation, but he was unable to point out any remedy by which it might be prevented M Grenet ...

The Baghdad batteries—plural because three were found—are somewhat different from such crude interpretations, although archaeologists reject the proposal that they functioned as voltaic cells used in ...

A SHORT time ago I had occasion to turn up a number of papers in Nicholson's Journal on early electro-chemical research in England. I was puzzled to find there certain statements regarding Volta's ...

His 1799 voltaic pile consisted of copper and zinc discs separated by brine-soaked cloth. It was the first battery that could provide a small but steady current to a circuit. Reconstruction of the ...