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Concept

Electricity

Images

  • Electricity: an electrometer attached to an electro-static generator. Engraving, 1769.
  • Essai theórique et expeŕimental sur le galvanisme, avec une seŕie d'expeŕiences faites en preśence des Commissaires de l'Institut national de France, et en divers amphitheátres anatomiques de Londres / par Jean Aldini.
  • M0014507: The electrical machine of Chistian August Hausen, 1743
  • Electric discharges in vacuum tube, belonging to J.P. Gassiot. Coloured lithograph etching, ca. 1860.
  • Panama-Pacific Exposition.
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Catalogue

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    Die Elektrizität und ihre Anwendungen / von L. Graetz.

    Graetz, Leo, 1856-1941. | Date: 1917
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    L'elettricismo : poemetto per le faustissime nozze delle LL. EE. d. Guido di Soragna e donna Giovanna Borromeo.

    Civetti, Giulio. | Date: 1771
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    On the results of a series of experiments on the decomposition of water by the galvanic battery : with a view to obtain a constant and brilliant lime light / by N.J. Callan.

    Callan, N. J. (Nicholas Joseph), 1799-1864. | Date: 1854
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    M0014864: Circuit showing the use of Poulsen's arc to give sustained oscillations, 1925

    | Date: August 1956 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/132/92
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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    Oersted and the discovery of electromagnetism / [Bern Dibner].

    Dibner, Bern. | Date: 1961
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