Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 572
machines bywhich the current was produced were, in principle, combinations of agreat number of Clarkes machines (see page 509). One such machinewas invented by Mr. Holmes, and was used for the illumination of theSouth Foreland Lighthouse in 1862. Another similar form of still earlierinvention had… … FIG. -iZoa.— The Alliance Machine. machine of 1855, havmg received certain improvements, afterwards becamevery well known by the name of the Alliance Companys machine, or simplythe Alliance machine. It is represented in its improved form in Fig. 28o<a:.Here ranges of steel horseshoe magnets will…
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