A dictionary of electrical words, terms and phrases (1896)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914 · New York, The W.J. Johnston company · leaf 236
will hold a quantity of electricityequal to one coulotnb when under an electromotiveforce of one volt. It may cause some perplexity to the student tounderstand why there should be in electricity oneunit of capacity to represent the size of the vesselor conductor, and another to represent theamount… … Fig. 245. Elevation 0/ Standardized Condenser.pend on the electromotive force under which it isput into the conductor or condenser. For purposes of measurement, capacities ofconductors are compared with those of condensers
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