ayrtou

Updated: June 12, 2025

Here is a battery, that is, an electricity pump; it will drive electricity along. Prof. Ayrtou is going, I am afraid, to tell you, on the 20th of January next, that it produces electricity; but if he does, I hope you will remember that that is exactly what neither it nor anything else can do.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881