The standard electrical dictionary : a popular encyclopaedia of words and terms used in the practice of electrical engineering (1898)
Sloane, T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor), 1851-1940 · London : Crosby Lockwood and Son · leaf 82
. Rowlands water battery dispenses with cups and uses capillarityinstead. The zinc and platinum or copper plates of a couple areplaced very close together, while the couples are more distant.On dipping into water each couple picks up and retains by capil-larity a little water between its plates,… … Fig. 55* Section of Wollaston Battery.
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