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 472
the wires M M. The magnets are fixed on the revolving cylinder, and wound round withcopper wire, the one positive and the other negative. These wires are carried from one magnet toanother across the row, and brought out at the axle of the cylinder, forming a circular fan E, so that asthe cylinder… … The magnetic cylinder revolves to meet the ore as it comes forward on the web, and in the samedirection. T T are the magnets. M represents the wires from the battery. The large cylinder isrevolved by a band from the other side, passing over a pulley on the shaft of D, the magnetic cylinder.The…
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