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“To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man.”

Ifs Men Science Sea Achievement Crosses Noble Electricity Machinery Magnetism Traverse Galvanism

Book:Elements of Electro-metallurgy

Source: Elements of Electro-metallurgy

“But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil war of the worst description: we should rather, through the instrumentality of the men of science soften the asperities of national hostility. Davy's remarks to Thomas Poole on accepting Napoleon's prize for the best experiment on Galvanism.”

Ifs Men Should Two War Country Government Accepting Worst He Man Experiments Civil War Description Prize Hostility Remarks Two Countries Galvanism

Author:Humphry Davy

“Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes; And galvanism has set some corpses grinning, But has not answer'd like the apparatus Of the Humane Society's beginning, By which men are unsuffocated gratis: What wondrous new machines have late been spinning.”

Men Has Beens Made Science Answers Wonder Late Machines Bread Indifferent Potatoes Humane Corpses Spinning Wondrous Grinning Humane Society Galvanism

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements. The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.”

Men Way Done Light Might Strong Force Stars Fire Wind Cost Elements Labor Instance Gravity Steam Magnet Borrowing Chores Wagons Galvanism

Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.”

Men Art Shows Eye Together Powerful Half Vision Saws Students Engines Pale Hideous Uneasy Kneeling Signs Of Life Frankenstein Novel Galvanism

Book:Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus

“[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.”

Humans Science Father Dying Ocean Photograph Invention Pity Estates Our Father Steam Cheated Telegraph Galvanism

Book:Society and Solitude and Other Essays

Source: Society and Solitude and Other Essays