A Scientific 'Get-Together'

One night when his charge was pretty high, Micro Farad decided to try to get a cute coil to let him discharge.

He picked up Millie Amp and took her for a ride in his megacycle. They rode across Wheatstone bridge, around the sine wave and stopped in a magnetic field by a flowing current.....

Micro farad, attracted by Millie's characteristic curves, decided to engage in a little mutual inductance, and soon had her resistance at a minimum and his field fully excited.

He laid her on the ground potential, raised her frequency, lowered her capacitance, and pulled out his high voltage probe. He inserted it into her tank circuit, connecting them in parallel, and began to short circuit her shunt.

Fully excited, Millie Amp cried, 'MHO, MHO, it Hertz, but give me MHO'. With his tube operation at maximum amplitude, and her coil vibrating from the current flow, they soon reached plate saturation and found their cut-off point. The heavy current flow had gotten the anodes of her tubes hot and Micro farad was rapidly discharged and drained off every electron.

They fluxed all night, trying various connections and sockets until his bar magnet had lost all of its field strength and her grid was leaking.

Afterwards, Millie Amp tried self induction and damaged her solenoids. With his battery fully discharged and his contacts corroded, Micro farad was unable to excite his generator, so they ended by reversing polarity and blowing each other's fuses.