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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 206

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e induction spark can also melt and volatizevery thin wires. It also marks a black or yellow about five inches wide and eight inches long, and a cats skin ac-company the machine. The plate of hard rubber is excited by friction with the catsskin, and held over one of the holes in the fixed plate… … The Holtz Electric Machine. than the friction plate machine of the same diameter. The lengthof the spark it is capable of giving is from one-third to one-halfthe diameter of the rotating plate. This electricity is like that ofthe induction coil. It combines the qualities of both the machineand the…

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