Electricity for everybody; its nature and uses explained (1895)
Atkinson, Philip · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 217
through it, direct from one plate to theother, without traversing the instruments. If, when the plug is out, lightning should strike theline wire, it will usually take the shorter route throughthe points, across to the central plate, and thence to theearth by the central wire, instead of the longer… … Fig. 88. out by the plug during a thunder-storm or the absenceof the operator. If a break occurs in the line wire, by which the currentflowing through a way station is interrupted, connectioncan be reestablished with the stations on the opposite sidefrom the break by inserting the plug into the…
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