ABSTRACT
George Gore, 1826–1908, generally famed for inventing the safety match, was an electrochemist. Gore was first inspired by the medical possibilities of galvanism, later expanding his expertise in physics and chemistry. He sounds a similar note to Liebig here, promoting the link between the imagination of hypotheses and the design of experiments in order to make ‘discoveries’, laying out the importance of practical and intellectual dexterity. As it may be of service to young experimentalists, this chapter gives the condensed outline of the chief steps to be taken in carrying out one of the commonest forms of original qualitative research in physics or chemistry. As discoveries are originated in a great variety of ways, it is assumed that in this case the investigator is already acquainted with some phenomenon or mode of working, original or otherwise, which he believes may, by his taking the requisite trouble, yield some new results.
