Electricians' operating and testing manual; a hand book for men in charge of electrical apparatus, repair men, trouble men, lamp trimmers, and electricians generally (1916)
Horstmann, Henry Charles, Tousley, Victor Hugo, 1875- joint author · Chicago, F.J. Drake & co · leaf 13
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 Electric 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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