Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 441
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 eoil 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 battery is increased bythe intervention even of a short ribbon coil, that from a large one did not appear to be much increasedthereby. But when the length of the coiled wire is increased hi proportion to…
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