Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 447
ere visible. The phenomena of the mechanical action of these initial and termi-nal secondary currents have been elaborately developed by the experi-ments of Professor Henry. He states that when the length of the wirein the coil of a helix is increased, the power of the battery continuinguniformly… … ELECTRICITY. 439 and even to reduce the intensity of the shocks. Whilst the shock from a small hattery is increased bythe intervention even of a short ribhon coil, that from a large one did not appear to he much increasedthereby. But when the length of the coiled wire is increased in proportion to…
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