Elementary treatise on physics experimental and applied for the use of colleges and schools (1890)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, E. (Edmund) · New York : W. Wood · leaf 756
spark of 4 to 5inches. 760. Wimshurst8 machine.—This is the simplest and most efficient ofall induction machines. It consists (fig. 690) of two circular glass discs mounted on a fixedhorizontal spindle in such a way as to be rotated in opposite directions at a 730 Frictional Electricity. [760-… … Fig. 690. Attached to the fixed spindle on which the discs rotate is a bent conduct-ing rod, at the ends of which are two fine wire brushes ; twice during eachrevolution two diametrically opposite conductors are put in connection witheach other by means of this conductor, as they just graze the…
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