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Updated: May 23, 2025
And it will make you open your eyes when you see a room with three miles of shelving, on which are ranged twenty-two thousand battery-jars." "My dear," said Miss Lillycrop, with a mild smile, "you will no doubt wonder at my ignorance, but I don't understand what you mean by a battery-jar." "It is a jar, cousin, which contains the substances which produce electricity."
Maggie had been at work. The wooden box which covered the battery-jars had been removed, and lay on its side. The battery-jars were uncovered, giving an effect of mystery unveiled, a sort of shamelessness, of destroyed illusion. Maggie pointed. "There's a paper under one of the jars," she said. "I haven't touched it, but I know well enough what it is."
"There are four thousand wires connected with it two thousand going to the instruments up-stairs, and two thousand connected with the battery-jars. When I complete the circuit by connecting any couple of these buttons, the influence of the current is at once perceived." He took a piece of charcoal, as he spoke, and brought it into contact with two of the knobs.
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