The animal as a prime mover

✍ Scribed by R.H. Thurston

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1895
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 908 KB
• Volume: 139
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(95)90243-0

✦ Synopsis

Singular and unfamiliar energies are produced by the vital machine, either as incidental to the ultimate purposes of the apparatus, or as special final output for peculiar purposes. For example, it is known that electricity is produced in the muscular and nervous systems, in vertebrate animals, and that in some cases, as in that of the electric eel, in large quantities, and for peculiar and special purposes of offence and defence. The fire-fly, also, produces light forits own special purposes. It is supposed by some authorities that electricity is developed for the use of the internal telegraphic system of all animals and it is a "singular" product only in the sense VOL. CXXXIX. No. 831. xI *Recherches d'61ectricit6 animale. Annales de Chemie et de Physique, 3e seHe, t. xxx, p. 119.