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    Earth battery - Wikipedia

    An earth battery is a pair of electrodes made of two dissimilar metals, such as iron and copper, which are buried in the soil or immersed in the sea. Earth batteries act as water-activated batteries. If the plates are sufficiently far apart, they can tap telluric currents . Earth batteries are sometimes referred to as telluric … See more

    One of the earliest examples of an earth battery was built by Alexander Bain in 1841 in order to drive a prime mover—a device that transforms the flow or changes in pressure of a See more

    The simplest earth batteries consist of conductive plates from different metals of the electropotential series, buried in the ground so that the soil acts as the electrolyte in a voltaic cell. As such, the device acts as a primary cell. When operated only as … See more

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    • Park Benjamin and Melvin L. Severy, The Voltaic Cell: Its Construction and Its Capacity. Wiley, 1893. 562 pages. pp. 317–319.
    • George Milton Hopkins, Experimental Science: Elementary, … See more

    1841
    Alexander Bain built one of the earliest examples of an earth battery to drive a clock.
    1875
    James C. Bryan received a patent for his earth battery, which was one of the first to use earth currents for telegraphy.
    1898
    Nathan Stubblefield received a patent for his electrolytic coil battery, which was a combination of an earth battery and a solenoid.
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