A dictionary of electrical words, terms and phrases (1898)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914 · New York, The W. J. Johnston company · leaf 209
nstthe alphabet, or from B to A). If the junction becooled below the rest of the circuit, a current isproduced across the junction from the antimonyto the bismuth (with the alphabet, or from A to B).These currents are called thermo-electric currents,and are proportional to the differences of… … Fig. 228. Thermo-Electricity. a lamp will have a difference of potential devel-oped in it. The same thing may also be shown by placinga cylinder of bismuth J, Fig. 229, in a gap in a A
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