Electricians' operating and testing manual; (1910)
Horstmann, Henry C. [from old catalog], Tousley, Victor Hugo, 1875- [from old catalog] joint author · Chicago, F. H. Drake & co · leaf 11
e direction of the flow of current is said to befrom the zinc to the copper inside of the cell and fromthe copper back to the zinc in the exterior circuit or The Elect pic Current 9 outside of the cell. In all batteries (a battery is anumber of cells coupled together) the copper plate orterminal is… … Figure 2 can obtain but a very insignificant current, and thatfor only a very short time, for reasons to be givenlater on. If we couple a number of cells together, asconventionally indicated at B in Figure 2, we shall beable to obtain a considerable current. In this repre-sentation of a battery the…
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