Twentieth century handbook for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers; a practical nontechnical treatise on the care and management of steam engines, boilers and electric machinery (1922)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 1365
ficient to spark, the second cylinder is charged toline potential, and the second gap receives 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… … Gaps Fig. 626 >diagram showing condenser action of cylinders andpotential gradient for static stress gap, the potential gradient along the remainder readjustsitself. How the Dynamic Arc is Extinguished.—When thesparks extend across all the gaps the dynamic current willfollow if, at that instant,…
