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TIBERIUS CAVALLO (1749-1809)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 563 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAVALLO (1749-1809)  , Anglo-See also:Italian electrician and natural philosopher, was See also:born on the 30th of See also:March 1749 at See also:Naples, where his See also:father was a physician . In 1771 he came to See also:England with the intention of pursuing a See also:mercantile career, but he soon turned his See also:attention to scientific See also:work . Although he made several ingenious improvements in scientific See also:instruments, his mind. was rather imitative and See also:critical than creative . He published numerous See also:works on different branches of physics, including A See also:Complete See also:Treatise on See also:Electricity (1777), Treatise on the Nature and Properties of See also:Air and other permanently Elastic Fluids (1781), See also:History and Practice of Aerostation (1785), Treatise on See also:Magnetism (1787), Elements of Natural and Experimental See also:Philosophy (1803), Theory and Practice of Medical Electricity (1780), and Medical Properties of Factitious Air (1998) . He died in See also:London on the 21st of See also:December 1809 .

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