A dictionary of electrical words, terms and phrases (1898)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914 · New York, The W. J. Johnston company · leaf 175
e is a species of convectivedischarge. In it, the streams of electrified airparticles assume the characteristic brush shape.(See Discharge, Convective.) Discharge, Brush-and-Spray —A form of streaming discharge obtained by in-creasing the frequency of the alternationsof a high potential current… … Fig. 206. Brush-and-Spray Discharge (Testa). Tesla, who has carefully studied these phenom-ena. The brush-and-spray discharge is best obtained,according to Tesla, by bringing the terminalsof a source of rapidly alternating electrostaticcurrents of high potential somewhat nearer to-gether, when the…
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