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battery caused bodies to attract each other in the same manner as the ordinary electricity did. He made it in order to experiment with his large voltaic battery, which was the most powerful then in existence. You see there are in this glass jar two leaves of gold, which I can cause to move to and fro by this rack-work. I will Fig. 46.⁠Fig. 47.connect each of these gold leaves with separate ends of this battery; and, if I have a sufficient number of plates in the battery, I shall be able to shew you that there will be some attraction