The standard electrical dictionary : a popular encyclopaedia of words and terms used in the practice of electrical engineering (1898)
Sloane, T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor), 1851-1940 · London : Crosby Lockwood and Son · leaf 145
chine; it is also used ina lightning arrester to define a path of very high resistance but oflow self-induction, for the lightning to follow to earth. Communicator. The instrument by which telegraph signalsare transmitted is sometimes thus termed. Commutator. In general an apparatus for changing.…
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