Aluminium as an electrode in cells for direct and alternate currents

Abstract

This paper deals with the apparent great resistance which aluminium offers to the passage of an electric current when used as anode in cells containing, for instance, such an electrolyte as alum in water. The following are references to papers which deal in whole a part with this or other properties of aluminium when employed electrode in electric cells. Wheatstone . ‘Roy. Soc. Proc.’ Read April 26,1855. This is the earliest paper I have found dealing with the metal aluminium in cells, but Wheatstone does not appear to have noticed the apparent great resistance mentioned above.