Dynamo-electricity: its generation, application, transmission, storage and measurement (1884)
Prescott, George B. (George Bartlett), 1830-1894 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 166
m any cause an exces-sive amount of current passes through the circuit, the safetycatch would immediately fuse, and thus cut off the flow of the EDISON S INCANDESCENT SYSTEM. 151 current before any danger could possibly be done by overheat-ing the wires. To make this perfectly clear to those who… … Fig. U. Edison lamp has a resistance exactly proportioned to this ten-sion. It is a well known fact that when two or more paths areopen for the passage of an electric current, it will follow eachin proportion to the facilities offered, and that the greater por-tion of it will take the easiest way ;…
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