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The Mechanical Universe 32
The Electric Battery |
Volta invents the electric battery using the internal properties of different metals.
Ch Frame Code Title
1 A Opening Sequence
2 02339 G A Lemon of a Battery
3 08149 V Stranded In The Desert
4 09309 V Making A Battery
5 09898 A Potential Inside A Metal (work function)
6 14868 E Volta And His Battery
7 15798 H Volta's Electrophorus
8 16643 E The Electrophorus
9 17268 H Volta's Electrophorus
10 17680 V Windmills
11 18208 H Van Marum's Generator
12 18643 H Volta's Scientific Reputation
13 19010 H Laplace And Lavoisier
14 19448 H Franklin Walking
15 19953 H Volta's Stay In Paris
16 20559 H Volta's Return To Italy
17 21188 H Galvani's Animal Electricity
18* 22813 E Electric Impulse Making Frog's Legs Twitch
19 23738 H Galvani's Electrical Signals
20 24453 H Galvani's Animals
21 25063 H Interpretation Of Galvani's Experiment
22 25642 V A Frog
23 25872 E Electric Impulse Making Frog's Legs Twitch
24 26197 H Volta's Electrifying Question
25* 26664 A Work Functions; How A Battery Works
26 29066 H Volta
27 29511 H Volta's Pile
28 29849 V How To Get A Charge Out Of An Electric Eel
29 30671 A How A Battery Works
30 36002 H Volta's Electric Pile
31 37571 H Napoleon
32 37893 H Volta's Electric Battery
33* 38683 V Manufacturing Electric Batteries
34 45742 V Cars On A Modern Street
35 46419 G Volta's Life And A Lemon Battery
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Prepared by Jeff Rudd, 1999
Revised by Laura Schmidt, 2007