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A Tiny Battery Across the Atlantic

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 10, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 35, No. 21.

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A Tiny Battery Across the Atlantic

So wonderful are the present achievements of science that a message has been sent across the Atlantic by a battery composed of a common gun cap, containing a narrow strip of zinc soldered to a copper wire, and charged with a drop of water from the ocean. A tear would have answered as well as the ocean drop. And this tiny battery was able to generate sufficient force to send its impulse from continent to continent, and write its story in another hemisphere.