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Wonders of electricity (1872)

Baille, Jean Baptiste Alexandre, b. 1841, Armstrong, John W., ed · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and co. · leaf 189

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to a natural wire,not a wire traversed by anetized piece of iron, or by removing it, the sameeffects were produced ; the natural wire was tra-versed for an instant with an electric current. Thesecurrents were called induced currents, their presencebeing shown by a galvanometer, or common compass.… … Induction of a Wire by a Magnet. current, but a mag- COIL OF RUHMKORFF. 163 ble of becoming increasingly energetic, according tothe rapidity of the motion of the electrified wire.There was consequently no longer any need of thebattery to produce an electric current. Such werethe great facts…

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