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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Telesphorus

Britannica 11th

TELESPHORUS, bishop of Rome from about 126 till about 137. St Irenaeus says that he suffered martyrdom.

Vol. 26, pp. 573-573 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0
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Electrophorus

Britannica 11th

ELECTROPHORUS. an instrument invented by Alessandro Volta in 1775, by which mechanical work is transformed into electrostatic charge by the aid of a small initial charge of electricity. The operation depends on the facts of electrostatic induction discovered b

Vol. 9, pp. 237-237 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 33.75
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