A dictionary of electrical words, terms and phrases (1896)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914 · New York, The W.J. Johnston company · leaf 491
oring dielectric. An electric displacement occurs in the neigh-boring dielectric, and produces thereby what isgenerally called the residual charge. Soaking-Ont.—A term sometimes em-ployed by telegraphers to represent a gradualdischarge which occurs in the case of acharged conductor in a neighboring… … Fig- 5°3> Lamp Socket. for the reception of an incandescent electriclamp. Incandescent lamp sockets are generally madeso that the mere insertion of the base of the lamp
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