Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 324
e current as before, through the wire X S, it immediately revolves about thepole P of the magnet, with a direct screw motion, supposing the current to descen 1 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… … z V V f > 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 wire of the battery; so that an electrical current flowing over or…
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