Item 29038“Experiments on the Chemical Production and Agency of Electricity” (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 91 pp. 427-434)
London: Royal Society of London, 1801. First Edition. Wraps. Extract. 427-434 pp. 8vo. Toning from age, slight chipping to spine. English chemist William Hyde Wollaston (1766 - 1828) conducted experiments in 1801 that led him to propose that Volta’s pile created electricity through a chemical reaction, the correct answer and.....