Electric Lighting and Its Practical Application: With Results from Existing ExamplesHardwicke & Bogue, 1879 - 108 pages |
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... motor required to give practical effect to Sir Humphrey Davy's discovery ; and which dispensed with the use of any battery or chemical agency . Many years , together with the work of many minds , were still to be 2 ELECTRIC LIGHTING .
... motor required to give practical effect to Sir Humphrey Davy's discovery ; and which dispensed with the use of any battery or chemical agency . Many years , together with the work of many minds , were still to be 2 ELECTRIC LIGHTING .
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... motor for this sized machine is an engine of 10 horse - power nominal ; the number of lights generally produced , as at the Western Railway Terminus in Paris , varying from six to twelve . But as many as twenty - eight have been ...
... motor for this sized machine is an engine of 10 horse - power nominal ; the number of lights generally produced , as at the Western Railway Terminus in Paris , varying from six to twelve . But as many as twenty - eight have been ...
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... motor must always be provided , as long as the present mode of creating the electric current is retained . The motors which are generally available for this mechanical purpose are steam , gas , and water ; and in some particular cases ...
... motor must always be provided , as long as the present mode of creating the electric current is retained . The motors which are generally available for this mechanical purpose are steam , gas , and water ; and in some particular cases ...
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... motor power from the electric machine itself , especially at the moment of illumination , all of which the motor power is expected to overcome , and that almost immediately ; otherwise very considerable variations and fluctuations in ...
... motor power from the electric machine itself , especially at the moment of illumination , all of which the motor power is expected to overcome , and that almost immediately ; otherwise very considerable variations and fluctuations in ...
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... motor there does not exist the disadvantage to which the steam engine is liable , of a variable pressure being possible in the supply , and depending upon the vigilance of an attendant . For with the gas engine , once the suit- able ...
... motor there does not exist the disadvantage to which the steam engine is liable , of a variable pressure being possible in the supply , and depending upon the vigilance of an attendant . For with the gas engine , once the suit- able ...
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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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