VOLTA, Alessandro (1745-1827). ‘On the Electricity excited by the mere Contact of Conducting Substances of Different Kinds’. Extracted from : Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 90 . London: W. Bulmer & Co. for Peter Elmsley, 1800. A fine copy of the first announcement of the electric battery. Volta’s electric battery (the 'voltaic pile') was composed of pairs of silver and zinc disks separated by cardboard soaked in saline or acid solution. It was a breakthrough in physics, and led to the development of electrotechnology. 'The voltaic pile revolutionized the theory and practice of electricity, so that within one hundred years of Volta’s invention more progress was made than in the two thousand four hundred years between the tentative experiences of Thales and the publication of Volta’s letter addressed to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society' (PMM). Horblit 37b; Norman 2164; PMM 255. Quarto (263 x 202mm). One folding engraved plate by James Basire illustrating the first electric battery (plate with minor marginal spots). Modern burgundy morocco gilt.
VOLTA, Alessandro (1745-1827). ‘On the Electricity excited by the mere Contact of Conducting Substances of Different Kinds’. Extracted from : Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 90 . London: W. Bulmer & Co. for Peter Elmsley, 1800. A fine copy of the first announcement of the electric battery. Volta’s electric battery (the 'voltaic pile') was composed of pairs of silver and zinc disks separated by cardboard soaked in saline or acid solution. It was a breakthrough in physics, and led to the development of electrotechnology. 'The voltaic pile revolutionized the theory and practice of electricity, so that within one hundred years of Volta’s invention more progress was made than in the two thousand four hundred years between the tentative experiences of Thales and the publication of Volta’s letter addressed to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society' (PMM). Horblit 37b; Norman 2164; PMM 255. Quarto (263 x 202mm). One folding engraved plate by James Basire illustrating the first electric battery (plate with minor marginal spots). Modern burgundy morocco gilt.
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