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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 51 15 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 22 8 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 7 1 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 3 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 3 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge 2 2 Browse Search
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labor and research to benefit all mankind, particularly in the study of those sciences which were to test the magnetic and electric discoveries by Galvani, the results of whose researches were then being exploited by the great discoveries of Sir Humphry Davy. I believed that the gates for pursuing chemical knowledge and investigation in a regularly defined and scientific manner were opened by the wonderful invention of the murdered Lavoisier in his chemical nomenclature, which gave name and p This pile could readily be made in a student's room by building up plates of differently oxidizable metals with soft moistened porous mattings between them. It furnished power sufficient for electrical experiments in the same direction in which Davy, by a powerful battery of cells, was reducing into new combinations at will substances which had been hitherto deemed entirely simple and elementary. This substance, I believed, was the elective power of the future. At that time, so far as I kne