Crossword-Solution: ELECTROPHORUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Electrophorus | n. | An instrument for exciting electricity, and repeating the charge indefinitely by induction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal. |
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| ELECTRICAL condenser | 1 answer |
| an apparatus consisting of a disk and metal plate to demonstrate static electricity | 1 answer |
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Then comes the "Electrophorus," an electrical instrument suggested by Volta, which was thought at the time a grand invention for the purpose of getting light (Fig.
Having furnished themselves with the philosophical instruments necessary for their experiments--with barometers, thermometers, hygrometers, compasses, dipping needles, metallic wires, an electrophorus, a voltaic pile, and with some frogs, insects, and birds--they ascended, at ten o'clock, on the morning of August 23, 1804, from the garden of the Repository of Models.
Alexander Volta, another Italian professor, who had invented the electrophorus, and was possessed of great experimental skill, now turned his attention to the experiment of Galvani, and very soon discovered that the origin of the electricity that moved the frogs' legs was not in the legs themselves, but in the metals used.
There she learned the tributaries of the Amazon, and much Egyptian history; she could touch the cover of the electrophorus, speak of the weather in French, and read English so ingeniously that even true-born Britons were obliged to acknowledge that a new language had been discovered; lastly, she was accomplished in all the elegancies of German composition.
The first suggestion for a machine of the above kind seems to have grown out of the invention of Volta's electrophorus.