Electric Lighting and Its Practical Application: With Results from Existing ExamplesHardwicke & Bogue, 1879 - 108 pages |
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... side of it , and in close proximity to which it revolved . From each of these coils the two wires were taken to platinum electrodes , placed in as many bottles as there were coils . All the rotating discs were placed upon a single axle ...
... side of it , and in close proximity to which it revolved . From each of these coils the two wires were taken to platinum electrodes , placed in as many bottles as there were coils . All the rotating discs were placed upon a single axle ...
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... side of the induction coil ; the north pole of the system being midway between the two upper electro - magnets and directly over the axis of the coil , and the south pole in a similar position below the axis upon the bar between the ...
... side of the induction coil ; the north pole of the system being midway between the two upper electro - magnets and directly over the axis of the coil , and the south pole in a similar position below the axis upon the bar between the ...
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... side of the machine ; while its middle is clipped by a sort of ring of cast iron , which serves to divide the coils wound upon the half bar on either side of it , and thus forming them into two electro - magnets . These are so arranged ...
... side of the machine ; while its middle is clipped by a sort of ring of cast iron , which serves to divide the coils wound upon the half bar on either side of it , and thus forming them into two electro - magnets . These are so arranged ...
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... side of the disc has its separate coil of wire upon it . Thus upon each side of the rotating disc is a series of sixteen fixed electro - magnets , and of a similar number of revolving induction coils . The two halves into which the ...
... side of the disc has its separate coil of wire upon it . Thus upon each side of the rotating disc is a series of sixteen fixed electro - magnets , and of a similar number of revolving induction coils . The two halves into which the ...
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... side , twelve double coils ; while the fixed electro- magnets are but two in number , projecting from each end- frame , somewhat as in the Gramme machine . The upper pair of electro - magnet bars have their opposite poles facing the ...
... side , twelve double coils ; while the fixed electro- magnets are but two in number , projecting from each end- frame , somewhat as in the Gramme machine . The upper pair of electro - magnet bars have their opposite poles facing the ...
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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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