galvanism

How To Use galvanism In A Sentence

• He was the first to establish an explicit connection between galvanism and chemical reactivity.
• Or your unreposing Mammon-worshipper again, driven, as if by Galvanisms, by Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
• The friends were deeply engaged with the scientific ideas of their day, including those of galvanism, or creating life through electric impulses.
• Once he heard a lecture on the impossibility of applying steam navigation to the ocean; at another time he saw the principle of "galvanism" illustrated with a small battery, but the impracticability of its use for industrial purposes on account of the high cost of mercury was pointed out. Military reminiscences of Gen. Wm. R. Boggs, C.S.A.,
• This electrical potential is called galvanism and is the reason why we put zincs on boats.
• Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated; galvanism had given token of such things: perhaps the component parts of a creature might be manufactured, brought together, and endued with vital warmth. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
• Whether that sense took the form, scientifically, of a fascination with galvanism and electromagnetic storms, or of an interest in the role of the ‘animalcules’ and ‘infusoria,’ it clearly foreshadows twenty-first century science.
• The fact that contractions occurred in dead and living preparations suggested galvanism had application in the revival of persons asphyxiated or drowned.
• He attended lectures on many different topics but he was particularly interested in those on electricity, galvanism and mechanics.
• Those who saw him felt drawn to him by that attraction of the moral nature which men of science are happily unable to analyze; they would detect in it some phenomenon of galvanism, or the current of I know not what fluid, and express our sentiments in a formula of ratios of oxygen and electricity. The Purse