Controversial priority

van Troostwijk A.P., Deiman J.R. Sur une manière de decomposer l’Eau en Air inflammable & Air vital // Observations sur la physique, sur l’histoire naturelle et sur les arts. 1789. V. 35. P. 369-378. Adriaan Paets van Troostwijk (1752-1837) and Jan <Jahan> Rudolph Deiman<n> (1743-1808) where Dutch researchers who observed water decomposition under electric discharge. We can assume that the observed process was plasma-induced, probably with some contribution of the real electrolysis. This follows from information about Cuthbertson generator used in these experiments in combination with Leyden jars, and also from ….

Bakerian lectures of H. Davy

On some chemical agencies of electricity // Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London. 1807. V. 97. P. 1–56.

On some new phenomena of chemical changes produced by electricity, particularly the decomposition of the fixed Alkalies, and the exhibition of the new substances which constitute their bases; and on the general nature of alkaline bodies // Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London. 1808. V. 98. P. 1-44.

Electro-chemical researches, on the decomposition of the earths; with observations on the metals obtained from the alkaline earths, and on the amalgam procured from ammonia // Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London. 1808. V. 98. P. 333-370.

On some new electrochemical researches, on various objects, particularly the metallic bodies, from the alkalies, and earths, and on some combinations of hydrogene // Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London. 1810. V. 100. P. 16-74.

On the relations of electrical and chemical changes // Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London. 1826. V. 116. P. 383-422.

Diaphragm electrolysis

Daniel J.F. On the electrolysis of secondary compounds // Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London 1839. V. 129. P. 97-112. Observations of electrolyte movement and pH changes in the course of electrolysis of neutral and weakly acidic solutions. Continued in the same journal: 1840. V. 130. P. 209-224 and <jointly with his successor William Allen Miller (1817-1870)> 1844. V. 134. P. 1-19. The last article presents double diaphragms and contains a reasonable early classification of electrolytes.