Experimental Researches in Electricity

M. Earaday, Experimental Researches in Electricity, Taylor and Erancis, London, 1838 Dover, New York, 1965, Vol. I, 1168. 

Faraday, M. (1832). Experimental Researches in Electricity. First Series, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, pp. 125-162. 

Faraday, Michael. Experimental Researches in Electricity. Volume I. Richard and John Edward Taylor, London. 1839. 

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During the period 1831 through 1855 Faraday published a number of series of articles, Experimental Researches in Electricity, in the Philosophical TransaC tions of the Royal Society. Partington notes that the major studies of electrolysis and the galvanic cell appeared between 1833 and 1840. The most important discovery of these was the electrochemical equivalent ... 

Faraday, M. (i) Experimental Researches in Electricity, 3 vols., 1849-55. (2) Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics, 1859. 

Faraday s work on the identity of common and voltaic electricity led to his examining the nature of electro-chemical decomposition and of his thinking about the nature of the transmission of electric force. Although Faraday published his work on the identity of electricity and on electro-chemistry in separate series of his Experimental Researches in Electricity, his examination of electro-chemical phenomena emerged within the general context of his work on the identity of electricities and not simply as a method of quantifying electricity. 

For most of the remainder of 1832 Faraday ceased laboratory work and concentrated on writing his paper on the identity of electricities - series three of Experimental Researches in Electricity (52). He was in danger of making discoveries at such a rate that one would overtake the other, and he really needed time to give order to his ideas and work by writing. Faraday had become distracted by his electro-chemical discoveries which clearly needed much more experimentation. In series three Faraday concentrated on... 

He wrote up all these results in the seventh series of Experimental Researches in Electricity in late 1833 (78). He first noted that the theory of electro-chemical action he had advanced in the fifth series was greatly at variance with earlier theories and that his new theory of internal electro-chemical action within the decomposing body required a new nomenclature. He then proceeded to state the new electro-chemical terms with which we are now so familiar - electrode, electrolyte, cathode, anode etc. Faraday used these terms to emphasise that he was not taking any view of the nature of the electric current beyond what he had already stated in earlier papers. He described his volta-electrometers and described all the experiments by which he had tested all the possible instrumental differences which might have an effect on decomposition the size of the electrodes, the intensity of electricity, variations in both, and the variation in the strength of the electrolytic solution. He showed that under all these different circumstances the same amount of water was decomposed when the same quantity of electricity was passed. He confidently stated ... 

However, this does not represent his only quantitative work. See M. Faraday, "Experimental Researches in Electricity -Eleventh Series. On Induction", Phil.Trans.. 1838, 128 1-40, section v for his work on specific inductive capacity. 

M. Faraday, "Experimental Researches in Electricity - Seventh Series. On electro-chemical decomposition. On the absolute quantity of electricity associated with the particles or atoms of matter", Phil.Trans.. 1834, 124 77-122, paragraph 783 Ibid, paragraph 836... 

M. Faraday, "Experimental Researches in Electricity. On the induction of electric currents. On the evolution of electricity from magnetism. On Arago s magnetic phenomena", ... 

M. Faraday, Experimental Researches in Electricity - Sixth Series. On the power of metals and other solids to induce the combination of gaseous bodies . Phil.Trans.. 1834, 124 55-76. Ibid, paragraph 626. 

Faraday, M. Experimental Researches in Electricity (1855), reprinted in Great Books of the Western World Chicago, 1952 para. 1625. 

Faraday M (1834) On electrochemical decmnposition (Reprinted in [4], pp 11-44, Original paper Faraday M (1834) Experimental researches in electricity. Seventh series. Phil Trans R Soc Lrmd 124 77-122)... 

In the nineteenth century, the understanding of electricity was developed further. Michael Faraday, in his volume on experimental research in electricity from 1855, mentions the use of copper, iron, platinum and platina (natural impure platinum Faraday, 1855). 

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