Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 436
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 excitation of regular electric currents, of sufficient intensity to be transmitted to dis-tant places along connecting wires. It is stated by Mr. Tylee, a chemist of Bath, England, that a battery composed of thirty pairs oPzinc and copper plates, which he buried in…
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