A dictionary of electrical words, terms and phrases (1896)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914 · New York, The W.J. Johnston company · leaf 431
urges the liquid Pot.] 419 rPot, through the pipe between any two points, maybe called the liquid-motive force {Fleming) and ismeasured by the difference of pressure betweenthese points. In Fig. 450, the dynamo-electric machine at D,has its negative pole grounded, and its positivepole connected to… … Fig. 450. Fall of Electric Potential. The dynamo-electric machine may be regardedas a pump that is raising the electricity from alower to a higher level, and passing it throughthe lead A B. The electric pressure or potentialproducing the flow is greatest near the dynamo andleast at the further end,…
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