A Century of ElectricityMacmillan, 1887 - 229 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 30
Página 7
... TELEGRAPHY AND SUBMARINE CABLES . . 111 CHAPTER VI . FARADAY'S DISCOVERY OF INDUCTION AND THE DE- VELOPMENT OF THE DYNAMO CHAPTER VII . THE ELECTRIC LIGHT 151 183 CHAPTER VIII . THE TRANSMISSION OF ENERGY BY MEANS OF.
... TELEGRAPHY AND SUBMARINE CABLES . . 111 CHAPTER VI . FARADAY'S DISCOVERY OF INDUCTION AND THE DE- VELOPMENT OF THE DYNAMO CHAPTER VII . THE ELECTRIC LIGHT 151 183 CHAPTER VIII . THE TRANSMISSION OF ENERGY BY MEANS OF.
Página 37
... Faraday , De La Rive , Becquerel , and others , while Volta has been sustained by Sir William Thomson and several eminent electricians of continental Europe . Although the subject has received much attention from the ablest author ...
... Faraday , De La Rive , Becquerel , and others , while Volta has been sustained by Sir William Thomson and several eminent electricians of continental Europe . Although the subject has received much attention from the ablest author ...
Página 78
... Faraday . He was not present when the trial was made , but , entering the room afterward , heard some conversation on the subject between the two famous philoso- phers . In his spare moments he had given much thought to the subject of ...
... Faraday . He was not present when the trial was made , but , entering the room afterward , heard some conversation on the subject between the two famous philoso- phers . In his spare moments he had given much thought to the subject of ...
Página 150
... while the needle telegraph , which in the beginning made no record , now finds almost its only representative in the si- phon recorder . CHAPTER VI . FARADAY'S DISCOVERY OF INDUCTION AND THE DEVELOPMENT 150 CENTURY OF ELECTRICITY .
... while the needle telegraph , which in the beginning made no record , now finds almost its only representative in the si- phon recorder . CHAPTER VI . FARADAY'S DISCOVERY OF INDUCTION AND THE DEVELOPMENT 150 CENTURY OF ELECTRICITY .
Página 151
... very incomplete if terminated at this point . Nearly all of the more recent and more striking applications of the electric current , in which almost CHAPTER VI FARADAY'S DISCOVERY OF INDUCTION AND THE VELOPMENT OF THE DYNAMO.
... very incomplete if terminated at this point . Nearly all of the more recent and more striking applications of the electric current , in which almost CHAPTER VI FARADAY'S DISCOVERY OF INDUCTION AND THE VELOPMENT OF THE DYNAMO.
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
already Ampère appear armature arranged attracted battery beatification cable carbon cell century chemical circuit coil conductor connected consists construction copper core Crown 8vo current of electricity CYRUS W dash Davy deflect device devised direction discovery disk duced duplex dynamo dynamo-electric dynamo-electric machine effect elec electric current electric light electric telegraph electricians electrified electro-magnet electromotive force energy exhibited experiment experimental extremely fact Faraday Faraday's field flow Franklin Galvani galvanometer gutta-percha heat important increased induction insulated invention inventors known lamp latter Leyden jar lines of force machine magnetic needle means ment metals method Morse motion motor nearly number of lines Oersted's operation passed periment poles possible present principle produced rapid receiving instrument resistance rotation Royal Society science of electricity scientific signals siphon recorder stopcock successful sulphuric acid telegraph tion trans transmission transmitted tricity vibration wheel wire zinc
Pasajes populares
Página 46 - ... of an inch), a bright spark was produced, and more than half the volume of the charcoal became ignited to whiteness, and by withdrawing the points from each other a constant discharge took place through the heated air, in a space equal at least to four inches, producing a most brilliant ascending arch of light, broad and conical in form in the middle.
Página 22 - I never was before engaged in any study that so totally engrossed my attention and my time, as this has lately done ; for what with making experiments when I can be alone, and repeating them to my friends and acquaintance, who, from the novelty of the thing, come continually in crowds to see them, I have, during some months past, had little leisure for any thing else.
Página 47 - ... producing a most beautiful coruscation of purple light, the charcoal became intensely ignited, and some platina wire attached to it, fused with brilliant scintillations, and fell in large globules upon the plate of the pump. All the phenomena of chemical decomposition were produced with intense rapidity by this combination.
Página 25 - The electric fluid is attracted by points. We do not know whether this property is in lightning, but since they agree in all the particulars in which we can already compare them, is it not probable they agree likewise in this? Let the experiment be made.