A-B-C of Electricity

by Wm. H. Meadowcroft

MULTIPLE SERIES

The sketch we have last given shows three batteries connected in multiple. These we will call set No. 1.

Now, suppose we take three more batteries exactly similar and connect them together just in the same manner. Let us call this set No. 2. Now take the wire leading from the carbon of set No. 2 and connect it with the wire leading from the zinc of set No. 1. Then take a wire leading from the zinc of set No. 2, and a wire leading from the carbon of set No. 1, and connect them with the lamps or motors. These two sets being connected in multiple series, we shall get 4 volts and 30 ampères.

This is called connecting in multiple series, and may be extended indefinitely with any number of batteries.

We should add that one of the elements in a battery is called "positive," and the other "negative."