A dictionary of electrical words, terms and phrases (1896)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914 · New York, The W.J. Johnston company · leaf 56
ources. The separate sources may be coupled either inseries, in multiple, in multiple-series, or in series-multiple. ( See Circuits, Varieties of.) The term battery is sometimes incorrectly ap-plied to a single voltaic couple or cell. Battery, Floating, De la Rives A floating voltaic cell, the… … Fig. 38. Floating Cell. taic couple of zinc and copper, the terminals ofwhich are connected to the circular coil of insu-lated wire, as shown, and the whole floated bymeans of a cork, in a vessel containing dilute sul-phuric acid. When the current flows through the coil in thedirection shown by the…
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