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.
HOW IS AC VOLTAGE PRODUCED? relative motion between the conductor and the magnetic field. In portable generators the above motion is created by an internal combustion engine. Note that although the terms generator and alternator are often used interchangeably, the former often refers to a set combining an engine and an alternator.