Electricians' operating and testing manual; (1910)
Horstmann, Henry C. [from old catalog], Tousley, Victor Hugo, 1875- [from old catalog] joint author · Chicago, F. H. Drake & co · leaf 23
magnet shown in Fig-ure 5. If we take a magnet of this kind and sprinklea lot of iron filings or small tacks about the ends theywill be attracted and form around it in the mannershown. If the magnet is weak it will be necessary toassist the formation somewrhat by gently placing thetacks where they… … Figure 4 more tacks in one place some of the others will falloff. If we now take the armature A and place itacross the pole of the magnet, say at 0, by far thegreater part of the tacks will fall off. The reason forthis is that the magnetic flow or flux, as it is usuallytermed, follows along the…
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