Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 75
seem for an instantto be full of crackling fire. If the battery is a strongone, and you place a piece of paper between theends of the wires, you will find after the flashthat a small hole, with blackened edges, has beenmade through the paper. This shows that there isheat as well as light, for the… … A RAINY NIGHT.— STREET LIGHTED BY ELECTRICITY. together. Now, holding the cup in the hand,touch the ends of the two wires to the tongue.Again you feel the strange, biting, bitter taste. At one time it was imagined that electricity wasa kind of fluid, like water, and that it could, insome way, flow…
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