A dictionary of electrical words, terms and phrases (1898)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914 · New York, The W. J. Johnston company · leaf 140
Moment of — The effective power or force of a couple. The moment of a couple is equal to the inten-sity of one of the forces multiplied by the perpen-dicular distance between the direction of theforces. Couple, Thermo-Electric Two dis-similar metals which, when connected at theirends only, so as to… … 174. MagneticCouple. Cou.] 131 [Cre. of antimony the combination will form a thermo-electric couple, and the circuit so formed willhave a current passing through it when one junc-tion is hotter or colder than the other. There is, according to Lodge, a true contactforce, at a thermo-electric…
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