Baille, Jean Baptiste Alexandre, b. 1841, Armstrong, John W., ed · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and co. · leaf 50
n. Every time that an object of whatever kindtouches the wire, and puts it into electrical commu-nication with the earth, that object gives a second-ary or collateral passage to the electricity, forming,as it were, a sort of branch canal to the main wire.Consequently, there immediately results a… … 32 WONDERS OF ELECTRICITY. which, swayed bj the wind, conies in contact withthe aerial wire, the current of the wire divides itselfinto two ; the one continues its way along the cir-cuit, and goes on to move the telegraphic machinery ;the other is lost in the earth. These deviations arecontinually…
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