Journal - Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania (1826)
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) · [Philadelphia : Franklin Institute] · leaf 426
offers aresistance to the passage of electricity just as the pipe offered a resist-ance to the flow of water, and the larger the wire is, and the greaterits sectional area, the greater is the flow of electricity, just as the greaterthe diameter of the pipe, the greater is the flow of water. Thus,… … Fig. 1.—Decomposition of water by anelectric current. (Cell upriglil.) analogous to the pressure of water, and when I speak of tiie resistanceit is analogous to the frictional resistance to the flow of water in thepipe. Previous to the year 1820 the important facts which were known inconnection…
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