Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians with questions and answers; a practical non-technical treatise .. (1913)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 1359
s the static strainand breaks down. The successive action is similar to over-turning a row of nine-pins by pushing the first pin againstthe second. This phenomenon explains why a given lengthof air gap concentrated in one gap requires more potentialto spark across it, than the same total length… … 0 Gaps 9 Fig. 626 diagram showing condenser action of cylinders and potential gradient for static stress gap, the potential gradient along the remainder readjustsitself. Row the Dynamic Arc is Extinguished.—When thesparks extend across all the gaps the dynamic current willfollow if, at that…
