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Dynamo-electricity: its generation, application, transmission, storage and measurement (1884)

Prescott, George B. (George Bartlett), 1830-1894 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 290

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Fig, 146. THE SWAN INCANDESCENT LAMP. 271 the circuit, or they may be placed in a special circuit audcharged by machines set apart for this use alone. The im-portant features of the system are: first, to provide an unfailingsupply of electrical energy, by the use of the storage batteries: … Fig. 147. and second to utilize the arc light plant at times when it wouldotherwise be idle, thus virtually diminishing the interest on theinvestment. It is claimed that the employment of storage batteries not 272 THE ELECTRIC LIGHT. only produces a perfectly steady light, but the uniformity of…

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