Electric Lighting and Its Practical Application: With Results from Existing ExamplesHardwicke & Bogue, 1879 - 108 pages |
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... France Ry . , Powell , and Albert Hall . Lyons Ry . , Western of France Ry . , and Gaiety Theatre , London . Avenue de l'Opéra , Thames Embankment , Holborn Viaduct , Billingsgate Market . ' Times ' Office . Wallace - Farmer , Liverpool ...
... France Ry . , Powell , and Albert Hall . Lyons Ry . , Western of France Ry . , and Gaiety Theatre , London . Avenue de l'Opéra , Thames Embankment , Holborn Viaduct , Billingsgate Market . ' Times ' Office . Wallace - Farmer , Liverpool ...
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... France the Compagnie de l'Alliance was being formed about 1859 to take up the construction of electric - light machines , based upon the arrangement of Nollet . After satisfactory trials in Paris , the southern of the two lighthouses at ...
... France the Compagnie de l'Alliance was being formed about 1859 to take up the construction of electric - light machines , based upon the arrangement of Nollet . After satisfactory trials in Paris , the southern of the two lighthouses at ...
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... France a number of industrial works , such as spinning and weaving mills , ironworks , open yards , and railway goods stations , have been lit up , each by a number of single - light Gramme machines . The result has been gene- rally ...
... France a number of industrial works , such as spinning and weaving mills , ironworks , open yards , and railway goods stations , have been lit up , each by a number of single - light Gramme machines . The result has been gene- rally ...
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... France and in this country . They are due to M. Reynier and to Mr. Werdermann respectively . In them , it must be re- membered , there is a distinct break or disconnection be- tween the two electrodes , and that it is not one single ...
... France and in this country . They are due to M. Reynier and to Mr. Werdermann respectively . In them , it must be re- membered , there is a distinct break or disconnection be- tween the two electrodes , and that it is not one single ...
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... France Ry . , Paris . London , and Western of Avenue elsewhere . France Ry . , de l'Opéra , Paris . Paris . Notwithstanding the many and varying elements , which must lead to very different sections of cable being used in each ...
... France Ry . , Paris . London , and Western of Avenue elsewhere . France Ry . , de l'Opéra , Paris . Paris . Notwithstanding the many and varying elements , which must lead to very different sections of cable being used in each ...
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Allard alternate current application of electric armature arrangement augmented Avenue de l'Opéra average BRITISH carbon points carbon rod carbon-holder circuit Coloured Plates combustion considerable cost Crown 8vo Demy 8vo direction disc Douglass Edition electric current electric illumination electric light electric machine electro-magnet electrodes engine power expenses experiments Fcap France Railway gas jets globe Gramme machine Holmes horizontal horse-power nominal illuminating power incandescent inches induction coil J. E. TAYLOR Jablochkoff candles light per hour light produced lighthouse London Lontin luminous intensity luminous point magneto-electric magnets means Meritens motor power NATURAL HISTORY Northern of France number of lights output Paris photometer placed vertically portion practice R. A. PROCTOR Rapieff reduced price regulator result revolutions per minute Serrin lamp shed Siemens Siemens machine single single-light Gramme single-light machines South Foreland standard candles station steam super-royal 8vo supplied Thames Embankment tion Trinity House Vols voltaic arc wire Woodcuts yards
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