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Experiments on galvanism
Date
1804
Object type
Library reference
R68357
Material
Technique
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height (print): 185mm
width (print): 120mm
width (print): 120mm
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Content object
Description
Experiments on galvanism carried out by Italian physicist Giovanni Aldini. Figure 1 shows ‘the manner of producing convulsions in cold-blooded animals, by the influence of warm-blooded animals’; Figures 2, 3 and 4 show various methods of inducing muscular convulsions in frog muscles via the application of an electric current. Illustration from Elements of galvanism, in theory and practice, by Charles Henry Wilkinson (London, 1804) the 'Lecturer on Galvanism in Soho-square'.
Elements of was an early history of galvanism and Galvani's experiments in the 1780s and 1790s, and a practical manual showing how to perform experiments in 'animal electricity'.
Elements of was an early history of galvanism and Galvani's experiments in the 1780s and 1790s, and a practical manual showing how to perform experiments in 'animal electricity'.
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