† magnetomotorn.
Obsolete.
A kind of voltaic pile.
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electric battery1774
pile1800
battery1801
trough1806
voltaic battery1812
voltaic pile1812
magnetomotor1823
trough battery1841
gas battery1843
gravity battery1870
sand-battery1873
Bunsen battery1879
gravitation battery1883
magazine batterya1884
perfluent batterya1884
1823 Q. Jrnl. Sci., Lit., & Arts Apr. xviii. 143 New Form of Voltaic Apparatus—Mr. [W. H.] Pepys has constructed, at the London Institution, a single coil of copper and zinc plate..admirably adapted for all electro-magnetic experiments..and to Mr. Pepys's coil we may apply the term Magnetomotor.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1374/2 Magnetomotor, a voltaic series of two or more large plates which produce a great quantity of electricity of low intensity, adapted to the exhibition of electro-magnetic phenomena.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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