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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 385

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Fig. 212. for the headlights of locomotives has been that the jarring ofthe engine while in motion affects the regulating mechanism, so 364 THE ELECTRIC LIGHT. that the light is rendered extremely unsteady or is extinguished.This defect does not exist in the regulator shown in fig. 212,the carbons… … smaller one, f/, being heaviest and connected with the positivecarbon. The relative size of the two pistons is such that whenthe piston, a, falls of its own gravity, the piston, b, rises half thedistance. The regulation of the motion of the pistons is effected by en-larging or contracting the…

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