Battery, ELECTRIC

Levden jars joined either in cascade or in surface.--GALVANIC. Cells or elements joined in “ series,” i.e., with the negative pole of one joined to the positive pole of the next, and so on to the end; or joined in “multiple arc," i.e., with all the positive plates connected, and all the negative ones joined together. In the first case the difference of potential of n cells is n times that of one cell, but, the resistance is n times greater too, so that if short circuited the current will be the same as that from one cell. In the second IMG:content-0452.jpg:[blocks in formation] n