RUTHWELL, a parish, in the county of Dumfries containing the village of Clarencefield, 7Â½ miles (W. by N.) from Annan.
This is the basis of generation in rotating machines. You can produce a current in a conductor by connecting opposite ends to the + and-poles of a battery, but don't try this with your car battery or you will burn out the conductor and produce a lot of heat. It is safer to use a small dry battery.
DC generators. Just as a simple DC electric motor uses direct current (DC) electricity to produce continual, rotary motion, so a simple DC generator produces a steady supply of direct current electricity when it spins around.