 | James Mitchell - Mathematics - 1823 - 666 pages
...1800, and hence has been denominated the Voltaic pile. The apparatus first made by Volta consisted of a certain number of pairs of zinc and silver plates separated from each other by pieces of wet cloih ; the arrangement being as follows: zinc, silver, wet cloth; zinc, silver, wet cloth, and so... | |
 | Francis Sellon White - Industrial arts - 1827 - 608 pages
...accumulating the effects of this species of electricity by means of his battery or pile, which consisted of a certain number of pairs of zinc and silver plates...separated from each other by pieces of wet cloth, and this Voltaic pile has been since considerably improved upon by Ccuickshank and others. GAME. At... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - Science - 1828 - 468 pages
...and thence has been denominated the Voltaic pile. The apparatus, as first made by Volta, consisted of a certain number of pairs of zinc and silver plates,...separated from each other by pieces of wet cloth. Hence the arrangement was as follows : zinc, silver, wet cloth ; zinc, silver, wet cloth, and so on.... | |
 | George Crabb - Industrial arts - 1830 - 438 pages
...called the galvanic battery, or Voltaic pile. The apparatus first made by Volta, in 1S00, consisted of a certain number of pairs of zinc and silver plates,...the pieces of wet cloth being of the same size. He fonnd this much more powerful when the pieces of cloth were moistened with a solution of common salt... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - Chemistry - 1869 - 722 pages
...with that view was called the voltaic pile. The apparatus as first made by Volta (Fig. 280) consisted of a certain number of pairs of zinc and silver plates,...separated from each other by pieces of wet cloth. Hence the arrangement was as follows:- — zinc, silver, and wet cloth; zinc, silver, wet cloth, and... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - Electricity - 1873 - 180 pages
...with that view was called the voltaic pile. The apparatus as first made by Volta (Fig. 92) consisted of a certain number of pairs of zinc and silver plates,...separated from each other by pieces of wet cloth. Hence the arrangement was as follows: — zinc, silver, and wet cloth; zinc, silver, wet cloth, and... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - 1877 - 764 pages
...with that view was called the voltaic pile. The apparatus as first made by Volta (Fig. 280) consisted of a certain number of pairs of zinc and silver plates,...separated from each other by pieces of wet cloth. Hence the arrangement was as follows:- — zinc, silver, and wet cloth; zinc, silver, wet cloth, and... | |
 | William Barlow (of Muswell Hill.) - 1885 - 422 pages
...discoverer of this means of liberating electricity, originally experimented with, consists of a pile of a number of pairs of zinc and silver plates, separated from each other by pieces of wet cloth. Hence, the order of the layers, starting, say, from the bottom, is zinc, wet cloth, silver, zinc, wet... | |
 | Business etiquette - 1897 - 392 pages
...employed in generating galvanism. "Galvanic pile,'' the apparatus first made by Volla, which consisted of a certain number of pairs of zinc and silver plates,...pieces of wet cloth, in the order of zinc, silver, and wet cloth im regular succession. The materials usually employed now are copper and zinc in alternate... | |
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Hence the arrangement was as follows:- — zinc, silver, and wet cloth; zinc, silver, wet cloth, and so on. The silver plates were chiefly silver coins, the plates of zinc and the pieces of cloth being of the same size. He found this pile much more powerful... 