A dictionary of electrical words, terms and phrases (1896)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914 · New York, The W.J. Johnston company · leaf 293
) Magneto-electric induction. If the terminals of a voltaic cell be connectedwith the ends of a comparatively long coil of in-sulated wire, no appreciable spark will be observedon closing the cell, because the current inducedby self-induction is in the opposite direction to the current of the cell… … Fig. 2QQ. Mutual Induction The coil B, Fig. 299, consists of two parallelcoils of insulated wire, the terminals of one ofwhich, called the primary coil, are connectedwith the battery cell P N, and those of theother, called the secondary coil, with the galva-nometer G. Under these circumstances it…
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