galvanic

• '—Under the head of Reduction of Astronomical Observations it is stated that 'During the whole time of which I have spoken, the galvanic-contact method has been employed for transits, with the exception of a few days, when the galvanic apparatus was out of order. —  Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
• From the clock errors, I have deduced the personal equations of the observers in our usual way.... The result is that the magnitude of the personal equations in the galvanic-touch method is not above half of that in the eye and ear method. —  Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
• The level error was not sensibly affected.—The Sidereal Standard Clock preserves a rate approaching to perfection, so long as it is left without disturbance of the galvanic-contact springs (touched by its pendulum), which transmit signals at every second of time to sympathetic clocks and the chronograph. —  Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
• Coincidental with this obsession, the galvanometer showed a tremendous and permanent fluctuation, indicating that the resistance of the body to the current had suddenly and greatly changed Whatever view we may take of the facts, here is, at least, a striking incident, which the current theories of the varying causes of bodily resistance (in these psycho-galvanic reflexes) hardly serve to explain. —  The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
• Bury the past, and think only of the future--_of our father The last words act like a galvanic shock, at the same time soothing as balm. —  The Death Shot A Story Retold

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