Recreations in science and natural philosophy (1844)
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717. n 93006101, Montucla, Jean Etienne, 1725-1799. n 85800222, Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823. n 84160398, Riddle, Edward, 1788-1854. no2004015425 · London : Thomas Tegg · leaf 784
Fig. 53. copper, and partially immerse them in diluted sulphuric acid, keeping their upper edges in contact, but their lower edges apart, we shall find that a continued current of electricity passes from the zinc to the acid, from the acid to the copper, and from the copper to the zinc, and so on… … a negative state of electricity. Either of these arrangements is called a galvanic circle. Though the electrical effects of this simple apparatus are in general very feeble, it has been found possible, by a small apparatus of this kind to exhibit some of the more energetic effects of galvanism. In…
Scientific recreations
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