Introductory course of natural philosophy for the use of schools and academies. Ed. from Ganot's popular physics. By William G. Peck (1869)
Ganot, Adolphe, 1804-1887, Peck, William Guy, 1820-1892 · New York A.S. Barnes · leaf 438
at the bottom of each couple, and the copper one at thetop. The pile is supported by a suitable frame-work. This apparatus has been much modified, but the name pile hasbeen retained for all apparatus of the same kind, and the electricitygenerated in this way is called voltaic, or galvanic… … Fig. 2S4 Electrical Tension in the Pile. — Poles. — Electrodes. 412. In a pile which is insulated, one half is found to beelectrified positively and the other half negatively, the middle beingneutral. In the zinc and copper pile, that end towards which the zincplate in each couple is turned, is…
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