Bound volume of contributions to journals, 1823-1865: Experiences sur Le Developpement de L'Electricité par la Pression (1823); Sur les fils très-fins de platine et d'acier, et sur la distribution du magnétisme libre dans ces derniers (1823); Des Actions magnetiques ou actions analogues, produites dans tous les corps par l'influence de couranns electriques tres-energiques (1824); Des Decompositions chimiques operées avec des forces electriques a tres-petite tension (1827), etc.
Paris & Orleans: Various, 1823-1865. Hardcover. 8vo, bound volume probably from around 1865, titled "Memoires Divers," possibly collected by Becquerel himself; the first part containing several contributions, is paginated 1-244; starting with "Des Decompositions..." there are individual paginations for these contributions to journals. Titles are: Experiences sur Le Developpement de L'Electricité par la Pression (1823); Sur les fils très-fins de platine et d'acier, et sur la distribution du magnétisme libre dans ces derniers (1823); Des Actions magnetiques ou actions analogues, produites dans tous les corps par l'influence de couranns electriques tres-energiques (1824); Des Decompositions chimiques operées avec des forces electriques a tres-petite tension (1827); Memoire sur l'electro-chimie et l'emploi de l'electricité pour operer des combinaisons (1829); Premier Memoire sur l'application des forces eletro-chimiques a la physiologie vegetale (1833); Memoire sur l'application electro-chimique des oxydes et des metaux sur des metaux (ca. 1835); Memoire sur les Quantités de Sel...(1847); Nouvelles Recherches sur l'emploi du Sel en Agriculture (1849); Memoire sur les Quantités de Sel...contenues dans les plantes des terrains saliferes et non saliferes 847); Recherches sur la Statistique des Cereales et en particulier du Froment pendant la periode de 1815 a 1852 (1853?); Memoire sur l'Amerlioration de la Sologne (Ca. 1852); Rapport sur L'Amelioration de la Sologne (1852); Rapport presenté au Conseil General du Loiret...sur L'Amelioration de la Sologne (1853); De L'Art de la Guerre et des Sciences Militaires (1863); Notice Biographique sur Louis-Antoine Macarel (ca. 1863). Over 400 pp. in total. In 1820, following the work of René Just Haüy, he found that pressure can induce electricity in every material, attributing the effect to surface interactions (this is not piezoelectricity). In 1825 he invented a differential galvanometer for the accurate measurement of electrical resistance. In 1829 he invented a constant-current electrochemical cell, the forerunner of the Daniell cell. In 1839, working with his son A. E. Becquerel, he discovered the photovoltaic effect on an electrode immersed in a conductive liquid. In 1837 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society, and received its Copley Medal for his various memoirs on electricity, and particularly for those on the production of metallic sulphurets and sulphur by electrolysis. He was the first to prepare metallic elements from their ores by this method. It was hoped that this would lead to increased knowledge of the recomposition of crystallized bodies, and the processes which may have been employed by nature in the production of such bodies in the mineral kingdom. In biochemistry he worked at the problems of animal heat and at the phenomena accompanying the growth of plants, and he also devoted much time to meteorological questions and observations. He was a prolific writer. He died in Paris, where from 1837 he had been professor of physics at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. (Wikipedia). Very Good. Item #H18812
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