Tiberius Cavallo
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March 30, 1749 Naples |
| Died |
December 21, 1809 (aged 60) London |
Tiberius Cavallo (also Tiberio) (March 30 1749 – December 21 1809) was an Italian physicist and natural philosopher.
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 he 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.
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).
For Rees's Cyclopaedia he contributed articles on Electricity, Machinery and Mechanics, but the topics are not known.
References
- ↑ Archive Bakerian lectures 1799 - 1775
- ↑ , 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"
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press
External links
- An Account of Some New Electrical Experiments by Tiberius Cavallo Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Vol. 67 December 1777 pages 48–55
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