Excerpt from A Course of Twelve Elementary Lectures on Galvanism In fact, I have endeavoured throughout the whole work, to simplify the principles of Galvanism so as to be comprehensible to every capacity; and to place before the student, a series of facts, which, both for number and order of arrangement, has no precedent in the English language. For the information which I possess respecting the application of Galvanism to Engineering, I am especially indebted to General Pasley; by whose permission I have had an opportunity of being present at some of his experiments in the river Medway and by whose instructions I have been favoured with every facility for becoming acquainted with the ar rangement of the apparatus, and every part of the process; and I with pleasure avail myself of this opportunity of acknowledging these, and many other marks of kindness with which I have been honoured by that highly distinguished scientific officer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.