John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh,
On Some Electromagnetic Phenomena Considered in Connexion with the Dynamical Theory
(1899)
“ As a simple case, let us consider an experiment first made by De la Rive, in which a battery (such as a single Daniell cell) whose electromotive force is insufficient to decompose water, becomes competent to do so by the intervention of a coil or electromagnet. ”
