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Show How Electricity Is "itorrd." The energy which a current may at any Instant be said to possess is immediately transformed Into heat In the circuit, which will under certain conditions produce light; lnL chemical energy; into motion, which may or jnay not produce sound; or Into magnetic and electro-tonic electro-tonic conditions. The last may either be permanent or have the same evanescent existence as the original current. When electricity is employed to charge a storase lattery, only that rort which is transformed Into chemical energy Is used. Thereat Is dissipated. The battery, then, Instead In-stead of being a place where electricity elec-tricity is laid away, Is a place where chemicals are left by the current, with the expectation that thev will in turn produce a current when called upon. ThU may seem a line distinction, but it U only apparently ap-parently so. For instance, the current cur-rent might be produced by a dynamo dyna-mo turned by Niagara wte"-POf " The chemical Wt by It might be zinc deposited from asolution ot zinc sulphate This might be transported, transport-ed, preserved, bought and sold, and Anally bo employed by some physicist physi-cist to produce another current. Vre the electricity itself stared In its ori -inal form, then the imaglns-Uve imaglns-Uve reader can best tell what would becomTcf It and how It must be Sri.-l.SamlJMdon, tV, The Popular Sdcnet Monti' |