Tiberius Cavallo
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Tiberius Cavallo (30 March 1749 – 21 December 1809), Anglo-Italian physicist and natural philosopher, was born at Naples, where his father was a physician.
In 1771 he came to England with the intention of pursuing a mercantile career, but he soon turned his attention to scientific work. Although he made several ingenious improvements in scientific instruments, his mind was rather imitative and critical than creative. Cavallo was often cited in the literature of his time as inventor of Cavallo's multiplier, a device used for the amplification of small electric charges, making them observable and measurable in an electroscope.
He published numerous works on different branches of physics, including:
- A Complete Treatise on Electricity (1777)
- Treatise on the Nature and Properties of Air and other permanently Elastic Fluids (1781)
- History and Practice of Aerostation (1785)
- Treatise on Magnetism (1787)
- Elements of Natural and Experimental Philosophy (1803)
- Theory and Practice of Medical Electricity (1780)
- Medical Properties of Factitious Air (1798).
He died in London on 21 December 1809.
[edit] References
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
[edit] External link
- An Account of Some New Electrical Experiments by Tiberius Cavallo Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Vol. 67 Dec 1777 pages 48-55
