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 451
ower, (operated bya battery contained within a space of three cubic feet,) with two feet stroke, the whole weighing aboutone ton. It made 80 strokes per minute, whilst driving a circular saw ten inches in diameter, sawing upboards into laths. He has since experimented with a locomotive engine on… … ELECTRIC LIGHT. 443 Amongst other applications of electricity to useful purposes, the application of magneto-electricalaction in arresting the oscillations of the compass-card on board ship is not the least important. Elec-trical currents are excited in non-magnetic metals, such as copper, zinc,…
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