65.—A Plunge Battery adapted to a Set of Elements, as shown in
Figure 63. They may be lifted out and placed on the "Arms" to drain.
Fig. 66.—An Edison-Lalande Cell. ..................................
Fig. 67.—A Tomato-Can Cell; Sectional View. .......................
Fig. 68.—The Tomato-Can Cell Complete. ............................
Fig. 69.—Two Methods of Connecting Cells so as to obtain Different
Voltage and Amperage Values. ......................................
Fig. 70.—Small Storage Cells. .....................................
Fig. 71.—How to make the Plates for a Storage Cell. ...............
Fig. 72.—The Wood Separator. ......................................
Fig. 73.—The Complete Element for a Storage Cell. .................
Fig. 74.—A Battery of Home-Made Storage Cells. ....................
Fig. 75.—Gravity Cells. These consist of zinc and copper elements,
immersed in a zinc-copper sulphate solution. They cannot be easily
made, and are best purchased. The illustration also shows the
star-shaped copper and "crowfoot" zinc element used in a gravity
cell. .............................................................
Fig. 76.—A Current of Electricity flowing through a Wire will
deflect a Compass Needle. .........................................
Fig. 77.—If a Loop of Wire is formed about a Compass Needle, the
Deflection will be greater. .......................................
Fig. 78.—Iron Filings clustered on a Wire carrying a Current of
Electricity. ......................................................
Fig. 79.—Magnetic Phantom formed about a Wire carrying a Current of
Electricity. ......................................................
Fig. 80.—Magnetic Phantom formed about several Turns of wire. .....
Fig. 81.—Paper Tube wrapped with Wire for Experimental Purposes. ..
Fig. 82.—Showing how the Lines of Force "Leak" at the sides of the
coil, from a Coil of Wire, and how they are concentrated by an Iron
Core. .............................................................
Fig. 83.—The Principle of an Electro-Magnet. ......................
Fig. 84.—if you wrap some insulated Wire around an Ordinary Nail and
connect it to a Battery, it will become an Electro-Magnet. ........
Fig. 85.—If you wind the Wire around a small Paper Tube into which a
Nail will slide easily, the Coil will draw the Nail in when the
Current is turned on. .............................................
_By permission, from "Solenoids" by C. R. Underhill._
Lifting-Magnets of the type known as Plate, Billet, and Ingot
Magnets. ..........................................................
Fig. 86.—Showing how a Current of Electricity may be induced by a
Bar Magnet and a Coil. ............................................
Fig. 87.—A Horseshoe Magnet and a Coil arranged to produce Electric
Currents by _Induction_.
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