Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 442
mp;c. Mr. Bain made the experiment of burying a large sheet of zinc in the moist earth of Hyde Park,London; and at another spot, more than a mile distant, he buried a sheet of copper of- similar size.These two sheets he connected by a conducting wire, trained along the railings of the inclosure.… … 434 ELECTRICITY. he produced the exaltation of regular electric currents, of sufficient intensity to be transmitted to dis-tant places along connecting wires. It is stated by Mr. Tylee, a ohemist of Bath, England, that a battery composed of thirty pairs ofsine and copper plates, which he buried in…
Mechanical engineering
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