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.
Liquid conductors and gas conductors, electric current refers to electrons and protons flow in the opposite direction. Current is determined by the number of electrons passing through a cross-section of a conductor in one second. Current is measured in amperes, which is abbreviated  amps .