Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

MATTEUCCI, CARLO (1811-1868)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 895 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
» Make a correction to this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

MATTEUCCI, CARLO (1811-1868) , See also:Italian physicist, was See also:born at Forpi on the loth of See also:June 1811. After attending the tcole Polytechnique at See also:Paris, he became See also:professor of physics successively at See also:Bologna (1832), See also:Ravenna (1837) and See also:Pisa (184o). From 1847 he took an active See also:part in politics, and in 186o was chosen an Italian senator, at the same See also:time becoming inspector-See also:general of the Italian See also:telegraph lines. Two years later he was See also:minister of See also:education. He died near See also:Leghorn on the 25th of June 1868. He was the author of four scientific See also:treatises: Lezioni di fisica (2 vols., Pisa, 1841), Lezioni sui fenomeni fisicochimici dei See also:carpi viventi (Pisa, 1844), Manuale di telegrafia elettrica (Pisa, 185o) and Cours See also:special sur l'See also:induction, le magnetisme de rotation, &c. (Paris, 1854). His numerous papers were published in the Annales de chimie et de physique (1829–1858); and most of them also appeared at the time in the Italian scientific See also:journals. They relate almost entirely to See also:electrical phenomena, such as the magnetic rotation of See also:light, the See also:action of See also:gas batteries, the effects of torsion on See also:magnetism, the polarization of electrodes, &c., sufficiently See also:complete accounts of which are given in See also:Wiedemann's Galvanismus. Nine See also:memoirs, entitled " Electro-Physiological Researches," were published in the Philosophical Transactions, 1845–186o. SeerBianchi's Carlo Matteucci e l'Italia del suo tempo (See also:Rome, 1874).

End of Article: MATTEUCCI, CARLO (1811-1868)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
MATTERHORN 		[next]
MATTHEW CANTACUZENUS

Site © 2006 - Net Industries