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 548
top upon the point of the spindle and one of thepieces of iron wire is laid by the side of its point. As it turns themagnetic adherence causes the piece of wire to be carried alongin one direction by the rotation of the spindle, until the end isreached, when it goes over to the other side of the… … Fig. 338. Magnetic Top. To increase the mysterious effect covered iron wire (bonnet wire)may be employed. Torpedo, Electric. («) A fish, the Raia Torpedo, whichpossesses the power of giving electric shocks. (See Ray, Electric.) (d) An instrument of war; a torpedo whose operations includeelectrical…
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