Elementary lessons in electricity and magnetism (1906)
Thompson, Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips), 1851-1916, Schwetzky, Otto H. L. [from old catalog] · Chicago, Thompson & Thomas · leaf 144
Place in a glass jar somewater having a little sulphuric acid or any other oxidisingacid added to it (Fig. 71). Place in it separately two clean strips, one ofzinc Z, and one ofcopper C. This cellis capable of sup-plying a continuousflow of electricitythrough a wirewhose ends arebrought into… … Fig, 71. and the connecting wire,regarded as a sort of chemical furnace in which the fuelis zinc. Before the strips are connected by a wire noappreciable difference of potential between the copperand the zinc will be observed by an electrometer;because the electrometer only measures the potential…
Electricity · Magnetism
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