List of forms of electricity named after scientists

This is a list of forms of electricity named after scientists. The terms in this list are mostly archaic usages but are found in many 19th and early 20th-century publications.

Adjectives
faradic
Of electricity that is alternating, especially when obtained from an induction coil. Named after Michael Faraday who built the first electromagnetic generator.[1]
galvanic
Of electricity that is not alternating. Named after Luigi Galvani.[2]
voltaic
Of electricity derived from an electrochemical cell or battery. Named after Alessandro Volta who built the first battery, the voltaic pile. In most contexts it can be considered a synonym of galvanic.[3]

Nouns (applications)
Faradization
Electrotherapy treatment of a person with faradic electricity. Coined by Duchenne de Boulogne and named after Michael Faraday.[4]
Franklinization
Electrotherapy by charging a person to high voltage with static electricity. Named after Benjamin Franklin.[5]
d'Arsonvalization
Electrotherapy treatment of a person with high frequency electricity. Named after Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval.[6]

Nouns (forms)
Faradism
Faradic electricity[7]
Franklinism
High voltage static electricity as used in Franklinization[8]
Galvanism
Originally, voltaic electricity, but can also be used to distinguish Galvani's animal electricity from Volta's chemical/metal contact electricity

References
  1. de la Pena, p. 95
  2. de la Pena, p. 95
    • Chalovich, 20' 30
  3. Tate, p. 37
  4. de Young, p. 88
  5. Pinchuk et al., p. 277
    • Chalovich, 20' 30"
  6. Borck, p. 105
  7. Martellucci, pp. 8-9
  8. Martellucci, p. 4

Bibliography
  • Borck, Cornelius, Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography, Routledge, 2018 ISBN 1472469445.
  • Chalovich, Joseph M, 'Franklinization: Early Therapeutic Use of Static Electricity, ScholarShip, East Carolina University, 23 January 2012.
  • Martellucci, Jacopo (ed), Electrical Stimulation for Pelvic Floor Disorders, Springer, 2014 ISBN 3319069470.
  • de la Peňa, Carolyn Thomas, The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American, New York University Press, 2005 ISBN 081471983X.
  • Pinchuck, LS; Nikolaev, VI; Tsetkova, EA; Goldade, VA, Tribology and Biophysics of Artificial Joints, Elsevier, 2005 ISBN 0080458084.
  • Tate, Thomas, On Magnetism, Voltaic Electricity, and Electrodynamics, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 OCLC 316488126.
  • de Young, Mary, Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750-1950s, McFarland, 2015 ISBN 0786468971.
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