A dictionary of electrical words, terms and phrases (1898)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914 · New York, The W. J. Johnston company · leaf 48
evised by Sir William Thom-son, which can be used for an ampere-meter, awatt-meter, or a volt-meter, according to themanner in which its sets of fine and coarsewire coils are connected. (See Balance,Centi-Ampere) Balance, Coulombs Torsion An apparatus to measure the force of electric ormagnetic… … Fig- 34. Coulombs Torsion Balance. Fig. 34 represents a Coulomb torsion bal-ance, adapted to the measurement of the force Bal.] 39 [Bal. of electrostatic repulsion. A delicate needle ofshellac, having a small gilded pith ball at one ofits ends, is suspended by a fine metallic wire. Aproof-plane, B,…
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