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 322
ent as before, through the wire N S, it immediately revolves about thepole P of the magnet, with a direct screw motion, supposing the current to descend the wire, and thepole P to be a north pole. To enable these motions to go on without disturbing the progress of thecurrent and the connections… … -f iy u The tangential or transverse force, by which a magnetic pole is caused to revolve about a wire trans-mitting a current of Voltaic electricity, is equally apparent when the magnetic bar itself becomes theconjunctive wu-e of the battery; so that an electrical current flowing over or through a…
Mechanical engineering · Mechanics · Engineering
Internet Archive · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from [Electric engineering.] (1902)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-electricengineer03inte-457-286.webp)
