wet battery
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Take an ordinary wet battery and fasten two copper wires to the terminals and fasten the other ends of the wires to two pieces of heavy copper wire or 1/4-in. brass pipe.
From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.
When batteries are "dry" no chemical action can take place, and the battery does not deteriorate, while in a "wet" battery, chemical action takes place which gradually causes a battery to deteriorate.
From The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair by Witte, Otto A.
Some forms of wet battery work in the same way as the dry battery, and are used like-wise for open-circuit work.
From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth
