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 1388
e, shutting off the flow of current; butfor voltage above this value the current is limited only bythe internal resistance of the cell. This characteristicmakes the aluminum cell ideal as a means of dischargingabnormal potentials, or surges in electric circuits. It prac- Lightning Arresters 1353… … Fig. 644volt-ampebe characteristic curve of aluminum cell A volt-ampere-characteristic-curve of the aluminum cellon alternating current is shown in Fig. 644. The data forthis curve was taken with an oscillograph. It should be 1354 Steam Engineering noted that the critical voltage, alternating…
