A manual of electricity, magnetism and meteorology (1844)
Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859, Walker, Charles Vincent, 1812-1882 · London Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans · leaf 356
Each copper plate is doubled in such a manner as tolet the zinc plate of the next pair stand between itsfolds without touching them. In batteries of this kind, the trough is sometimes Fie. 134. … 320 VOLTAIC ELECTRICITY. BOOK III. replaced by a series of glass jars, as represented infig. 134-., in which the acid solution is more easilychanged or discharged. The same degree of gain would follow if the zincsurrounded the copper, the object being that equalsurfaces of metal should face each…
Atmospheric electricity · Electricity -- Early works to 1850 · Magnetism
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