combining form of VOLTAIC used in a few technical terms, as volta-electric, -electrometer, -inductric; voltaplast (see quot.); voltatype sb., an electrotype; v. trans., to electrotype.
Voltagraphy, given in some Dicts. as a synonym of ‘electrotypy,’ after Penny Cycl. (1843), XXVI. 434/2, was coined specially for use in that work, and appears to have had no real currency.
1834. Mrs. Somerville, Connex. Phys. Sci., xxxiii. 338. *Volta-electric induction is instantaneous.
1862. Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit., II. No. 3578. The instantaneous generation of volta-electric currents of intensity.
1834. Faraday, in Phil. Trans., CXXIV. 85. On a new Measure of *Volta-electricity. Ibid., 93. The instrument offers the only actual measurer of voltaic electricity which we at present possess…. I have therefore named it a *Volta-electrometer.
1839. Noad, Electricity, iii. 130. Its terminal wires are soldered to a Faraday’s volta-electrometer.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., 2714/1. Voltaelectrometer, an instrument for indicating the degree of electrical excitation.
1849. Noad, Electricity (ed. 3), 491. The manner in which this machine acts will be clearly understood by reference to the general principles of *volta-inductric action.
1842. Francis, Dict. Arts, *Voltaplast. Such is the name given to that form of galvanic battery which is adapted to the electrotype.
1842. Brande, Dict. Sci., 1309/2. Gold, silver, and other metals may … be substituted for copper, and thus a variety of *volta-types may be obtained. Ibid. It often happens that the article to be voltatyped, as this process is now called, is not a conductor of electricity.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., 2714/2. Volta-type, a cast of an object obtained by the gradual deposition of a metal from a metallic solution, through the agency of electric action.
