A dictionary of electrical words, terms and phrases (1896)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914 · New York, The W.J. Johnston company · leaf 258
a device a multiplier. In extremely sensi-tive galvanometers, very many turns of wire areemployed, in some cases amounting to manythousands. Such galvanometers are of high re-sistance. Others, of low resistance, often con-sist of a single turn of wire and are used in thedirect measurement of large… … Fig. 266. Schweiggers Multiplier. In the case of any galvanometer, when no cur-rent is passing, the needle, when at rest, should ingeneral occupy a position parallel to the plane ofthe coil. On the passage of the current, theneedle tends to place itself in a position at rightangles to the direction…
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