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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 470

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ame of a wax candle, and the arc is constantlydisplaced toward one side or the other, which renders it un- THE JAMIN CANDLE. 449 steady. Jamin studied various methods by which the arccould be maintained fixedly at the tips of the carbons, andfinally accomplished it by taking advantage of the fact… … ^^^^ Fig. 272. flowing in the same direction, and repelled when they are flow-ing in contrary directions. The principle of the Jamin candleis diagrammatically represented in fig. 272. In this candle theconductor L forms a coil, or hank, around the carbons c c\ Thearrows show that the currents in…

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