Electricity for everybody; its nature and uses explained (1895)
Atkinson, Philip · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 39
Fig. 7. STATIC ELECTRICITY. 25 In this way a charge of very high electric energy maybe accumulated, varying in proportion to the area ofcoated surface. This surface may be produced in a singlejar, or in a number of jars connected together as a Lei/den … Fig. 8. battery, as shown in Fig. 8, by connecting together alltheir inside coatings by conductors attached to the rods,and likewise all their outside coatings in any convenientmanner, as by a sheet of tinfoil,—the two surfaces thusbecoming practically the same as those of a single jarhaving the…
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