A dictionary of electrical words, terms and phrases (1896)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914 · New York, The W.J. Johnston company · leaf 512
h a galvanometer. A simple reversing switch consists of four in-sulated brass segments mounted on a plate ofebonite and furnished with openings betweenthem for plug connections. The battery terminals are connected to two di-agonally opposite segments, as B, and D, Fig.524, and the leading wires of… … Fig. 524. Reversing Switch. placed between A and B, and C and D, the bat-tery current will flow in the opposite direction. The battery current is cut off if one plug is re-moved. In practice, however, it is preferable toremove both plugs, so as to avoid any currentfrom want of sufficient…
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