HPS211H1 Lecture Notes - Voltaic Pile, Leyden Jar, Galvanism
8 Feb 2013
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Leyden jar electricity was thought of a fluid. It was thought of as a bottle of electricity. Animal electricity metal he was using was charged where the electric affect was coming from. A new type of electricity and called it animal electricity. Became skeptical and didn"t believe in animal electricity. Discovered a current must be added to animal tissue to make it move. 2 different types of metals separated by sponge and wetness created by electrolyte. One of those units will give you a direct current. As you add on more units, you increase the voltage. Gave experimenters a steady current over a sustained period of time. Voltaic pile put a rest to those efforts. Loadstones understood by middle ages you could use magnets for navigation. Did understand that magnets could be used to orient yourself. Effort to give mechanical explanation of this phenomenon. Faraday become preoccupied with studying magnetism.
