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pile
pile post of timber, steel, or concrete used to support a structure. Vertical piles, or bearing piles, the most common form, are generally needed for the foundations of bridges, docks, piers, and buildings. Slender tree trunks, roughly trimmed and about 10 in. (25.4 cm) thick at the butt, are used ... Read more
cairn
cairn pile of stones, usually conical in shape, raised as a landmark or a memorial. In prehistoric times it was usually erected over a burial. A barrow is sometimes called a cairn. ... Read more
Ossa
Ossa , peak, c.6,490 ft (1,980 m) high, NE Thessaly, N Greece. According to legend the Aloadae piled Mt. Pelion on Ossa when they stormed Olympus. ... Read more
cofferdam
cofferdam temporary barrier for excluding water from an area that is normally submerged. Made commonly of wood, steel, or concrete sheet piling (see pile ), cofferdams are used in constructing the foundations of dams, bridges, and similar subaqueous structures and for temporary drydocks. If double... Read more
Pelion
Pelion , Gr. Pílion, mountain, 5,252 ft (1,601 m) high, N Greece, E Thessaly, on the Aegean coast. In ancient legend, the centaur Chiron lived on the mountain and the Aloadae piled Pelion on Mt. Óssa. ... Read more
corduroy
corduroy a cut filling-pile fabric with lengthwise ridges, or wales, that may vary from fine (pinwale) to wide. Extra filling yarns float over a number of warp yarns that form either a plain-weave or twill-weave ground. After the fabric is woven the floating yarns are cut, and the pile is brushed a... Read more
velvet
velvet fabric having a soft, thick, short pile, usually of silk, and a plain twill or satin weave ground. The pile surface is formed by weaving an extra set of warp threads that are looped over wires as in Wilton carpet, the rods being withdrawn after the weft thread is placed, leaving a row of loo... Read more
lake dwelling
lake dwelling prehistoric habitation built over the shallow waters of a lake shore or a marsh, usually erected on pile-supported platforms, but sometimes on artificial mounds. Such a site afforded easy access to a varied food supply by the availability of fish, marsh fowl, and good cropland. Africa... Read more
pier
pier in engineering, term applied to a mass of reinforced concrete or masonry supporting a large structure, such as a bridge. When piers are built on ground of poor bearing value, it is often necessary to drive piles to obtain a firm base. Construction of piers built in riverbeds is facilitated by ... Read more
astrakhan
astrakhan [from Astrakhan ], pelt of the newborn Persian lamb, used like fur in garments, and also the woolen fabric woven to resemble real astrakhan. The cloth is woven on a cotton base entirely covered by a pile of closely curled mohair. Before being woven the mohair is wound on spindles and ste... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Voltaic pile"

Alessandro Volta, Conte
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...a senator of the kingdom of Lombardy. Volta invented the so-called Volta's pile (or voltaic pile); the electrophorus ; an electric condenser; and the voltaic cell . The volt , a unit of electrical measurement, is named for Volta.
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...century. The electrical current used was that obtained from one of Volta's "galvanic piles." Berzelius and Wilhelm Hisinger worked with the voltaic pile, and in 1803 they reported that, just as an electrical current could decompose water...
Sir Humphry Davy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...nearly 50 years passed before it was actually used as an anesthetic. Davy also experimented with the newly invented voltaic pile, or battery. Davy left Bristol to become the lecturer in chemistry at the Royal Institution in London. Sir Joseph...
Alessandro Volta
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Alessandro Volta The Italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) invented the electric battery, or "voltaic pile," thus providing for the first time a sustained source of current electricity. Alessandro Volta was born on Feb...
Electric Phenomena
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...Tomczyk did conduct electricity. He formed an open electrical circuit of two silver plates four millimeters apart, a voltaic pile, and a galvanometer. Tomczyk was able to close the circuit by holding her hands at either side of the silver electrodes...
Electric Circuit
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...Later, he used alternating discs of copper, zinc, and cardboard that had been soaked in a salt solution to create his voltaic pile (an early battery). By attaching a wire running from the top to the bottom, he caused an electric current to flow...

Dictionary entries related to "Voltaic pile"

Becquerel, Alexandre-Edmond
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...s measurement of the electromotive force of the voltaic pile was achieved through the use of his father ’...polarization of the electrodes on the functioning of voltaic piles. From 1845 to 1855, Becquerel devoted most of his...
Fischer, Nicolaus Wolfgang
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...which he contained in bladders. He thus obtained a voltaic pile which delivered a more or less constant electric current...therefore belongs among the pioneers in the construction of voltaic cells. Fischer also concerned himself with, among other...
Oersted, Hans Christian
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...ferment over the recently announced discovery of the voltaic pile (1800), and Oersted eagerly pursued information relating to galvanism and its relation to chemistry. A small voltaic battery of his own invention gained him entry to others...
Aldini, Glovanni
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...development of electricity was the discovery by Alessandro Volta in 1797 of the continuous-flow electric current from a voltaic pile. Next in importance to Volta stood Luigi Galvani, the uncle of Giovanni Aldini. In the controversy over Galvani...
Henry, Joseph
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...as a way to explain the variation of the needle. From Amp é re ’ s picture of the earth as a great voltaic pile with innumerable layers of materials producing circular currents around the magnetic axis, Henry probably conceived...
Berzelius, Jöns Jacob
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...scientific career by analyzing the mineral content of the spring water. At the same time he read of the newly described voltaic pile, the first reliable source of a continuous electric current. He soon built one for himself from sixty pairs of alternating...
Marum, Martin (Martinus) van
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...x2019; s work, and informed him in 1792 of his own experiments; van Marum later introduced the term “ Voltaic pile. ” Working with C. H. Pfaff, van Marum conclusively proved static and galvanic electricity to be identical...
Gassiot, John Peter
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...the identity of static and voltaic electricity seemed likely. But if this were so, voltaic, like static, electricity...sparks with a Zamboni dry pile of 10,000 cells and...not been decided whether voltaic electricity is produced...

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The Seasonal Assault With Batteries
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/6/1987; ; 700+ words ; ...down into cups of mercury. Volta's "pile," made of dozens of silver-zinc cells...made of 2,000 cells, a huge galvanic pile with a surface area of 889 square feet...England's brilliant Michael Faraday used voltaic piles to investigate the relationship of magnetism...
NOTES & THEORIES: I remember when the future was something we looked forward to...
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 7/9/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...system to be extended to intercontinental bi-planes and transnational bus routes). But despite exciting talk of voltaic piles, accelerated composites and nude bus conductors or trolley dollies, technology makes us stupid or, at least, uncritical...
101 gadgets that changed the world
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 11/5/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...phenomenon was taken up by his friend, the aristocratic Professor Alessandro Volta, whose voltaic cells stacked in a Voltaic pile amazed Napoleon. The pile was also the first battery, whose successors power more than a third of the gadgets on this...
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/3/2007; 700+ words ; ...phenomenon was taken up by his friend, the aristocratic Professor Alessandro Volta, whose voltaic cells stacked in a Voltaic pile amazed Napoleon. The pile was also the first battery, whose successors power more than a third of the gadgets on this...
The Electromagnetic Spectrum: A History
Magazine article from: Spectroscopy; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...of electricity dates to 1800 with the invention of the voltaic pile, the first crude battery. (Previous experiments involving...compass deflected when he turned the current on and off a voltaic cell. This suggested that there was a connection between...
New atomic spectrometry research reported from Autonomous University.(Report)
Newspaper article from: Nanotechnology Weekly; 6/29/2009; 700+ words ; ...which is currently being investigated as an alternative voltaic system. This study shows that conventional analytical...analysis of Ru and Se in carbon nanoparticles as a new voltaic pile system by TXRF. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry...
Electricity and Magnetism: A Historical Perspective (Greenwood Guides to Great Ideas in Science).(Book review)
Magazine article from: School Science and Mathematics; 4/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...one fluid idea of Franklin. Volta's electric "pile" made possible a continuous source of "electricity...modern concepts of protons and electrons to explain the Voltaic pile and of the pile's later use to aid in the understanding of "chemical...
Magnesium: The First Quarter Millennium
Magazine article from: JOM; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...However, the world had to wait until the discovery of electricity by L. Galvani and A. Volta's construction of the voltaic pile (battery) before H. Davy's work on electrolysis produced some evidence in 1808 for magnesium metal. Davy2 has...
Letters
Magazine article from: Chemical Engineering Progress; 2/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...shelf. However, the ability to experiment is important. I remember my fascination with distilling wood and making a voltaic pile. I loved that chemistry set and wish my sons shared my interest in the subject. Robert Bly Dumont, NJ Your story...
From Alchemy to Atomic Bombs: History of Chemistry, Metallurgy, and Civilization.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Chemical News; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...photographs of eight stamps among the figures as well as a 10,000 live Italian banknote depicting Alessandro Volta and his Voltaic pile. Name and subject indexes make the book extremely user-friendly. George B. Kauffman is a contributing editor of...