Dynamo-electricity: its generation, application, transmission, storage and measurement (1884)
Prescott, George B. (George Bartlett), 1830-1894 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 427
which, by drawing into themselves the two iron plun-gers, K and S, lifts one edge of the washer clutch, W, which, byits oblique action, seizes the carbon rod (much in the same wayas a tent-rope tightener grasps its cord) and lifts the upper car-bon until its influence is balanced by that of the… … Fig. 248. and fine wire coil similar to those of the regulating solenoids,but both wound in the same direction. When the thick wirecircuit of this magnet is complete, it forms a shunt of low resist-ance between the terminals, and, therefore, short-circuits thelamp, transmitting the current to the…
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