How to become an inventor : $b Containing experiments in photography, hydraulics, galvanism and electricity, magnetism, heat, and the wonders of the microscopeWarford, Aaron A.
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How to become an inventor : $b Containing experiments in photography, hydraulics, galvanism and electricity, magnetism, heat, and the wonders of the microscope
Warford, Aaron A.
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The current of electricity here generated will be extremely feeble;
but this can be easily increased by multiplying the glasses and the
number of the pieces of metal. If we take six such glasses instead of
one, partially fill them with dilute sulphuric acid, and put a piece
of zinc and copper into each, connecting them by means of copper wire
from glass to glass through the whole series, a stronger current of
electricity will be the result. The experimenter must be careful not to
let the wire and zinc touch each other at the bottom of the tumblers,
and must also remember that the copper of glass 1 is connected with the
zinc of glass 2, and so on.
TO MAKE A MAGNET BY THE VOLTAIC CURRENT.
To effect this, make a connection between the poles of the above or any
excited battery with the two ends of a wire formed into a spiral coil,
by bending common bonnet-wire closely round a cylinder, or tube, of
about an inch in diameter; into this coil introduce a needle or piece
of steel wire, laying it lengthways down the circles of the coil. In
a few minutes after the electric fluid has passed through the spiral
wire, and consequently round the needle or wire, the latter will be
found to be strongly magnetized, and to possess all the properties of a
magnet.
EFFECTS OF GALVANISM ON A MAGNET.
If a galvanic current, or any electric current, be made to pass along a
wire under which, and in a line with it, a compass is placed, it will
be found that the needle will no longer point north and south, but will
take a direction nearly across the current, and point almost east and
west.
CHANGE OF COLOR BY GALVANISM.
Put a teaspoonful of sulphate of soda into a cup, and dissolve it in
hot water; pour a little cabbage blue into the solution, and put a
portion into two glasses, connecting them by a piece of linen or cotton
cloth previously moistened in the same solution. On putting one of the
wires of the galvanic pole into each glass, the acid accumulates in the
one, turning the blue to a red, and the alkali in the other, rendering
it green. If the wires be now reversed, the acid accumulates eventually
in the glass where the alkali appeared, while the alkali passes to the
glass where the acid was.
THE GALVANIC SHOCK.
If the ends of the wires of a small galvanic battery are connected with
a proper electro-magnetic coil, which may now be purchased at a very
cheap rate, and the wires from the coil be placed in separate basins
of water, then, on dipping the fingers of each hand in the basin, a
smart shock will be felt, with a particular aching accompanied with
trembling. With a strong battery and larger coil this effect is felt as
high as the shoulders. The shock will also be felt by simply holding
the wires of a powerful galvanic battery, one in each hand, provided
the hands be moistened with salt and water. Several persons may receive
the shock from the battery and coil together by joining hands.
THE ELECTROTYPE.
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