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The Influence Of Electricity In Producing Decompositions, Although Of Inestimable Value As An Instrument Of Discovery In Chemical Inquiries, Can Hardly Be Said To Have Been Applied To The Practical Purposes Of Life, Until The Same Powerful Genius [davy] Which Detected The Principle, Applied It, By A Singular Felicity Of Reasoning, To Arrest The Corrosion Of The Copper-sheathing Of Vessels. ... This Was Regarded As By Laplace As The Greatest Of Sir Humphry's Discoveries.
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The Influence Of Electricity In Producing Decompositions,

Charles Babbage
The Influence Of Electricity In Producing Decompositions, Although Of Inestimable Value As An Instrument Of Discovery In Chemical Inquiries, Can Hardly Be Said To Have Been Applied To The Practical Purposes Of Life, Until The Same Powerful Genius [davy] Which Detected The Principle, Applied It, By A Singular Felicity Of Reasoning, To Arrest The Corrosion Of The Copper-sheathing Of Vessels. ... This Was Regarded As By Laplace As The Greatest Of Sir Humphry's Discoveries.
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