voltaic battery

American  

noun

Electricity.

1. battery.

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Etymology

Origin of voltaic battery

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

In summary, he reported that a compass needle experienced deviations when placed near a wire connecting the terminals of a voltaic battery.

From The Earliest Electromagnetic Instruments by Chipman, Robert A.

The placing of two or three pieces of metal one above another with a moist substance between them will create a voltaic battery.

From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Warder, George Woodward

Chemistry has also interacted with the different branches of physics, giving us the voltaic battery, the telegraph, and the wonderful results of spectrum-analysis.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 by Various

Inventors were not yet satisfied with the power developed from either the voltaic battery or the magneto-electric machine, and continued to improve the latter.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry

Electric Batteries From the time of Volta to the time of Faraday the only means of producing an electric current was the "voltaic battery," so called in honor of Volta.

From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth