A current was immediately produced, which was transmitted from the slip of zinc in the bottle to that in the tube, and the two slips having been connected by a metallic wire the slip in the tube became the positive pole, and that in the bottle the negative pole of the apparatus.
Aussitôt un courant se produisit, qui alla de la lame du flacon à celle du tube, et ces deux lames ayant été reliées par un fil métallique, la lame du tube devint le pôle positif et celle du flacon le pôle négatif de l'appareil.