Electricity one hundred years ago and to-day (1894)
Houston, Edwin James, 1874-1914. [from old catalog] · New York, The W. J. Johnston co., ltd. · leaf 64
r likethe genial sunshine. In a lecture delivered before the American Institute ofElectrical Engineers at Columbia College on the 20th ofMay, 1891, and published in Vol. VIII., Nos. 6 ancf 7of the Transactions of the American Institute of Electri-cal Engineers, on page 2jjy Tesla describes a… … Fig. 4. —Sensitive ThreadDischarge.curs when, the number of alternations per second being nigh, thecurrent through the primary is very small. In spite of the ex-cessively small current, the rate of change is great and the differ-ence of potential at the terminals of the secondary is…
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