Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers .. (1905)
Swingle, C. F. [from old catalog], Horstmann, Henry Charles, 1858- [from old catalog], Tousley, Victor Hugo, 1875- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & co. · leaf 425
proper solution, one ofthe copper plates in the solution will be graduallyeaten away and the other added to. If we now discon-nect our wires from the battery and connect I at 2, and2 at I, the chemical action in the jar will be reversed,the lamp and fine wire, R, will heat as before, no differ-ence… … figure 1. needle. The wire which connects the various devices,and the devices themselves, constitutes an electric cir-cuit, and the current is said to flow in such a circuitalong the wire, just as water flows in a pipe. Thesolid lines form what is known as a series circuit,while the dotted lines…
