It seemed to me also that the place of this block ought to be in the magnetic axis, as a sort of gigantic calamite, from whence the imponderable fluid whose currents made an inexhaustible accumulator set up at the confines of the world should issue.
"An Antarctic Mystery"
Jules Verne
He was not merely an accumulator of knowledge as it had been prepared by some one else.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
By reversing the direction of charge of the accumulator, however, the effect from this cause was found to be quite inappreciable.
"Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II"
Joshua Rose