Tiberius Cavallo
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Tiberius Cavallo (also Tiberio) (March 30, 1749 – December 21, 1809) was a Anglo-Italian physicist and natural philosopher.
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[edit] Life
He 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. He made several ingenious improvements in scientific instruments. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1779, and gave annual Bakerian Lectures from 1780 to 1792[1].
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[2]. He also worked on refrigeration[3], and his work influenced pioneer balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard[4]. He published on musical temperament[5].
He died in London on 21 December 1809.
[edit] Works
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).
[edit] References
- ^ Archive Bakerian lectures 1799 - 1775
- ^ [1], on the "pocket electrometer".
- ^ UCL Bentham Project
- ^ FAI Ballooning Commission - Spring 2001 Newsletter
- ^ The Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments - Dr. Smith's "Equal-Harmony"
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
[edit] External links
- An Account of Some New Electrical Experiments by Tiberius Cavallo Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Vol. 67 Dec 1777 pages 48-55
