biography
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| lived:
| (1753–1815)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in London, UK. A waterworks engineer for Portsmouth and Gosport, he invented the hydrometer named after him, and also a machine for printing on linen. In association with Anthony Carlisle (1768–1840) he constructed the first voltaic pile in England, and in so doing discovered that water could be dissociated by electricity (1800). In 1797 he founded the Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts, commonly known as ‘Nicholson's Journal’. |
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