Item #27496 FIRST FUEL CELL: “On the Gas Voltaic Battery. Experiments Made with a View of Ascertaining the Rationale of Its Action and Its Application to Eudiometry” (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 133 for the Year 1843 Part I & Part II, pp. 91-112). William Robert Grove.
FIRST FUEL CELL: “On the Gas Voltaic Battery. Experiments Made with a View of Ascertaining the Rationale of Its Action and Its Application to Eudiometry” (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 133 for the Year 1843 Part I & Part II, pp. 91-112)

FIRST FUEL CELL: “On the Gas Voltaic Battery. Experiments Made with a View of Ascertaining the Rationale of Its Action and Its Application to Eudiometry” (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 133 for the Year 1843 Part I & Part II, pp. 91-112).

London: Royal Society of London, 1838. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, [1]-336, [2] pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound. Crumpling and tears to p. 37/38, does not impact this article. Very Good.
Faraday makes an early step toward the discovery of the electron. In 1838, he passed an electrical current through a glass tube containing various gases, and noticed a strange “glow discharge” that occurred at both electrodes as he evacuated the tube. The glows extended from both electrodes for some distance as he increased the evacuation, but it never fully met at the middle.
Also contains Michael Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eighteenth Series" (pp. 17-32).
Also contains Charles Wheatstone's "The Bakerian Lecture--An account of several new instruments and processes for determining the constants of a voltaic circuit" (pp. 303-327).

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