The Life of Sir William SiemensJ. Murray, 1888 - 412 páginas |
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advantages afterwards apparatus application armature arrangement Athenæum Club attention Berlin Birmingham British Association brother Werner C. W. SIEMENS carried character Civil Engineers Company construction Council Crown 8vo DEAR dynamo effect electric current electric light electric telegraph eminent England English Eton College Exhibition experiments factory Faraday firm Frederick Frederick Bramwell friends fuel further German give gutta-percha Halske Hans Siemens heat Himly honour important improvement increased Institution of Civil insulated interest invention Iron and Steel Kertch labours Lady Siemens Landore lecture London louis-d'ors Lübeck machine Magdeburg magnets manufacture matter mechanical meeting ment Messrs metal nature obtained paper patent pig metal practical President principle produced Professor purpose railway received regenerative regenerative furnace remarkable Royal Society Russia scientific ship Siemens's Sir William Siemens Sir William Thomson steam submarine cables success telegraph temperature tion took Werner Siemens wires wrote
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Página 224 - Ampere's beautiful theory were adopted, or any other, or whatever reservation were mentally made, still it appeared very extraordinary, that as every electric current was accompanied by a corresponding intensity of magnetic action at right angles to the current, good conductors of electricity, when placed within the sphere of this action, should not have any current induced through them, or some sensible effect produced equivalent in force to such a current.
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Página 315 - That plants do not appear to require a period of rest during the twenty-four hours of the day, but make increased and vigorous progress if subjected during daytime to sunlight and during the night to electric light. 5. That the radiation of heat from powerful electric arcs can be made available to counteract the effect of night frost, and is likely to promote the setting and ripening of fruit in the open air.