Electric Lighting and Its Practical Application: With Results from Existing ExamplesHardwicke & Bogue, 1879 - 108 pages |
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... termed , an electro - magnet , would induce an electric current in the latter . The simple apparatus , causing the revolution of such a coil before the poles of a permanent magnet , constituted in fact the first magneto - electric ...
... termed , an electro - magnet , would induce an electric current in the latter . The simple apparatus , causing the revolution of such a coil before the poles of a permanent magnet , constituted in fact the first magneto - electric ...
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... termed an " alternating " one . If it is desired to convert this current into one having a regular , uniform direction , or what is called a " con- tinuous " one , recourse must be had to a device termed a commutator ; which takes off ...
... termed an " alternating " one . If it is desired to convert this current into one having a regular , uniform direction , or what is called a " con- tinuous " one , recourse must be had to a device termed a commutator ; which takes off ...
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... termed " dynamo - electric " machines , as indicating that dynamical force is converted into electricity ; and which is gradually augmented in intensity . While for the older form , where permanent steel magnets are employed , the term ...
... termed " dynamo - electric " machines , as indicating that dynamical force is converted into electricity ; and which is gradually augmented in intensity . While for the older form , where permanent steel magnets are employed , the term ...
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... termed a commutator ; the currents circulating upon one half of its circumference being opposite in magnetic direction to those upon the other half ; a separate contact brush serving to carry off the current from each half . The ...
... termed a commutator ; the currents circulating upon one half of its circumference being opposite in magnetic direction to those upon the other half ; a separate contact brush serving to carry off the current from each half . The ...
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... and which may therefore be termed " many - light " machines , it has been found most convenient to construct them so as to give off currents alternating in direction ; which in practice seem more suit- HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE . 9.
... and which may therefore be termed " many - light " machines , it has been found most convenient to construct them so as to give off currents alternating in direction ; which in practice seem more suit- HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE . 9.
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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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