List of forms of electricity named after scientists explained
This is a list of forms of electricity named after scientists. The terms in this list are mostly archaic usages but are found in many 19th and early 20th-century publications.
Adjectives
- faradic : Of electricity that is alternating, especially when obtained from an induction coil. Named after Michael Faraday who built the first electromagnetic generator.[1]
galvanic : Of electricity that is not alternating. Named after Luigi Galvani.
voltaic : Of electricity derived from an electrochemical cell or battery. Named after Alessandro Volta who built the first battery, the voltaic pile. In most contexts it can be considered a synonym of galvanic.[2]
Nouns (applications)
- Faradization : Electrotherapy treatment of a person with faradic electricity. Coined by Duchenne de Boulogne and named after Michael Faraday.[3]
Franklinization : Electrotherapy by charging a person to high voltage with static electricity. Named after Benjamin Franklin.
d'Arsonvalization : Electrotherapy treatment of a person with high frequency electricity. Named after Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval.[4]
Nouns (forms)
- Faradism : Faradic electricity[5]
Franklinism : High voltage static electricity as used in Franklinization[6]
Galvanism : Originally, voltaic electricity, but can also be used to distinguish Galvani's animal electricity from Volta's chemical/metal contact electricity
Bibliography
- Borck, Cornelius, Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography, Routledge, 2018 .
- Chalovich, Joseph M, Franklinization: Early Therapeutic Use of Static Electricity, ScholarShip, East Carolina University, 23 January 2012.
- Martellucci, Jacopo (ed), Electrical Stimulation for Pelvic Floor Disorders, Springer, 2014 .
- de la Peňa, Carolyn Thomas, The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American, New York University Press, 2005 .
- Pinchuck, LS; Nikolaev, VI; Tsetkova, EA; Goldade, VA, Tribology and Biophysics of Artificial Joints, Elsevier, 2005 .
- Tate, Thomas, On Magnetism, Voltaic Electricity, and Electrodynamics, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 .
- de Young, Mary, Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750-1950s, McFarland, 2015 .
Notes and References
- de la Pena, p. 95
- Tate, p. 37
- de Young, p. 88
- Borck, p. 105
- Martellucci, pp. 8-9
- Martellucci, p. 4
