A course of twelve elementary lectures on galvanism / Illustrated with upwards of 100 engravings of experiments and apparatus. By William Sturgeon.

  • Sturgeon, William, 1783-1850.
Date:
1843
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Credit: A course of twelve elementary lectures on galvanism / Illustrated with upwards of 100 engravings of experiments and apparatus. By William Sturgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In fact, 1 have endeavoured throughout the whole work, to simplify the principles of Galvanism so as to be comprehensible, to every capacity ; and to place before the student, a series of facts, which, both for number and order of arrangement, has no precedent in the English language. For the information which I possess respecting the application of Galvanism to Engineering, I am especially indebted to General Pasley; by whose permission I have had an opportunity of being present at some of his experiments in the river Medway ; and by whose instructions I have been favoured with every facility for becoming acquainted with the ar¬ rangement of the apparatus, and every part of the process; and I with pleasure avail myself of this opportunity of acknowledging these, and many other marks of kindness with which I have been honoured by that highly distinguished scientific officer. Institute of Natural and Experimental Science, Manchester, July 20III, 1843.