Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 464
A series of precipitating troughs, arranged like a compound battery, may be employed occasionallywith only one battery. In this case, we should have one generating cell in the battery, and six, eight,or ten decomposition cells; therefore, by the fundamental laws to which the action of the galvanic…
Mechanical engineering
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