Dynamo-electricity: its generation, application, transmission, storage and measurement (1884)
Prescott, George B. (George Bartlett), 1830-1894 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 20
edscale, an arc of four inches in length was obtained in the openair, and in vacuo it increased to seven inches. Since then, morepowerful elements, and greater numbers have been employed,and the resulting effects have been on a corresponding scale. In temperature as well as brightness, the voltaic… … Fig. 2. As the light continues, the positive carbon is found to wasteaway much more rapidly than the negative—a fact first observedby Silliman—and although the latter is first to become heated,its temperature in the end is less than that of the former, as maybe seen when the light is interrupted,…
Electrical engineering
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