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Prior to 1800 electricity was chiefly a plaything for men of scientific tendencies and it was not until Volta invented the electric pile or battery that certain scientific men gave their entire attention to the study of electricity. Volta was not merely an inventor, for he was one of the greatest scientists of his period, endowed with an imagination which marked him as a genius in creative work. By contributing the electric battery, he added the greatest impetus to research in electrical science that it has ever received. As has already been shown, there began a period of enthusiastic research in the general field of heating effects of electric current. The electric arc was born in the cradle of this enthusiasm, and in the heating of metals by electricity the future incandescent lamp had its beginning.via the TL;DR App
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Written by matthewluckiesh | I was the Director of General Electric's Lighting Research Laboratory at its Nela Park National Lamps Works.
