"The most startling result of Faraday's Law is……" — Hermann von Helmholtz
"The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary portions, which behave like atoms of electricity."
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Hermann von Helmholtz
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27 Quotes by Hermann von Helmholtz
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