Elementary treatise on physics, experimental and applied : for the use of colleges and schools (1906)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, Edmund, 1831-1901, Reinold, A. W. (Arnold William), 1843-1921 · New York : Wood · leaf 961
ce P. This is tested by connectingthe clock in series with a standard, which itself has been previously regulatedby a seconds pendulum. At each oscillation of the pendulum there is anarrangement by which the circuit is opened|and closed, and thus the armatureP beats seconds exactly. To illustrate… … Fig. 917 rig. 918 Birmingham. When the current passes in this wire all the clocks will simul-taneously indicate the same hour, the same minute, and the same second ;for electricity takes an inappreciable time to go from London to Birmingham.912. Electric telegraphs.—These are apparatus by which…
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