Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 519
n electric-lightingplant. Instruments of this kind have lieeii con-structed capable of measuring over ITj.OOO amiieres.He has al.so devised an entirely novel .series of re-sistance coils. TUK FiSKIC El.KCTRICAI, RAXfiD-FlNDKR.—Thls apparatus involves an entirely novel api)lieation ofelectricity to… … Fio. 5.—Fiake range-finder. MEASURING-INSTRUMENTS, MECHANICAL. 495 The apparatus proper consists simply of two arcs of conducting material, marked E and Fon the diagram, wliich in reality are merely two lengths of wire supported on the circumfer-ence of two circular platforms resting on tripods.…
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