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  • While in medical school at the University of Uppsala, he read about Volta's "pile" and immediately constructed one for himself.

    Berzelius, Jöns Jakob 2009

  • She replaced her drummer with Lia Braswell and The Mars Volta's Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, who signed the band to his label and produced and played on Le Butcherettes' debut album Sin Sin Sin, is currently filling in on bass.

    Voto Latino: Le Butcherettes' Teri Gender Bender Puts a Spell On You Voto Latino 2012

  • This activity is complemented on the not even nominally democratic continent by Bernouilli's work on probability and fluid mechanics, Michel and Montgolfier's hot air balloon, Berthollet's chemical nomenclature, Volta's battery, Ampère's work on electricity, Gauss' and Lobachevsky's mathematics, Avogadro's chemistry, and Ampere's force law.

    ISLAM AND CIVILISATION 2009

  • Volta's method of stacking round plates of copper and zinc separated by disks of cardboard moistened with salt solution was called a Voltaic pile.

    Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio 2009

  • Vancouver-based Clark Sustainable Resource Developments (CSRD) has secured a 25-year concession to extract the dead but valuable trees from a zone representing around 40 percent of Lake's Volta's total area.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • The source of the electricity in the lightning, in Volta's battery,

    The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

  • As, in 1802, Volta's pile was already invented, several authors have supposed an application of it in Alexandre's apparatus.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 Various

  • Bennett and Cavallo had performed experiments with contact electrification prior to Volta's experiments, and says in conclusion, after referring to Bennett,

    Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous

  • Volta's theory of the source of current in the cell and calls attention to the fact that Davy had already made cells by the use of a single metal and two different liquids.

    Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous

  • A lever handle, J, interposed into the circuit a Volta's pistol,

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 Various

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