Show the name Is familiar BY FELIX B and ELMO EIMO SCOTT WATSON watt i TAMES AMES WATT who devoted most of his life to the invention and improvement of the modern steam engine has his name commemorated in the field of electricity instead of steam the unit ot of electrical measurement called the watt was named after him and designates the amount of electricity used in doing work he was a scottish engineer who was born in 1736 and died at the age of 83 in his later years he experimented with an apparatus for copying sculpture not many months before his death he presented coples copies of busts to his friends as the work of a young artist just entering f his eighty james watt third year the first use of watts steam engine 9 ine was in pumping water from mines later when others suggested making a wheeled cart of it and using it on rails to pull carriages watt would not listen to the plans and so it is that the man who made the steam engine practical died believing that the steam railroad was impracticable maybe after all its just as well that a word in the electrical field instead of steam has been coined to commemorate him galvanism 0 NE day in the latter part of the eighteenth century while luigi galvani eminent professor of anatomy at bologna italy was at work in his laboratory an accident occurred that startled the entire scientific world galvani had placed a dissected frog on a table near an electrical machine his assistant accidentally touched a nerve of the dead frog while the machine was turning L and sending out sparks immediately the dead frog 11 A jumped into action and went through all sorts of physical contortions tort ions galvani was a great professor an authority on luigi galvani anatomy he must explain this phenomenon it if electricity could make a dead frogs muscles move then it must be electricity that made its muscles move when it was alive he reasoned was there such a force as animal electricity tri city was electricity the force that made all animals and men move electricity life itself galvani thought so and he told the world what he thought the world believed him even the medical world and a new word galvanism was added to every european language it meant the force in a living body that gives it the ability to move and remain alive and today we still say persons are galvanized into action when we mean they have had life put into them suddenly like gallanis Gal vanis dead frog released by western newspaper union |