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THERE are few instances in which anyone whose life has not been exclusively scientific has made such valuable contributions to science as those of. Sir W. R. Grove. His nitric acid battery, to the invention of which he was led, not by accident, but by a course of reasoning, which in the year 1839 was as new as it was original, is a contribution to science the value of which is proved by its still surviving and continuing in daily use in every laboratory as the most powerful generator of electric currents, while hundreds of batteries invented since that of Grove have fallen into disuse, and become extinct in the struggle for scientific existence.
The Correlation of Physical Forces. Sixth edition.
With other Contributions to Science. By the Hon. Sir W. R. Grove., one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas. (London: Longmans, 1874).
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CLERK-MAXWELL, J. The Correlation of Physical Forces. Sixth edition. Nature 10, 302–304 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/010302a0
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