An account of some remarkable applications of the electric fluid to the useful arts by Alexander Bain

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Chapman and Hall, 1843 - 80 ページ
 

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88 ページ - The movement of the upper one was shown by an index, that pointed to the right or to the left according to the direction of the motion.
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90 ページ - The types then operate upon the machinery and serve to regulate the times and intervals ot the passages of electricity. Each passage of the fluid causes a pencil at the extremity of the wire to mark the points as in the diagram. To read the marks, count the points at the bottom of each line. It will be perceived that two points come first, separated by a short interval From the next point. Set 2 beneath it. Then comes one point likewise separated by a short interval. Set 1 beneath it. Then come four...
42 ページ - ... subject. Among these were his well-known determination of the velocity of electricity when passing through a metal wire ; — his experiments, in which the deflection of magnetic needles, the decomposition of water, and other voltaic and magnetoelectric effects, were produced through greater lengths of wire than had ever before been experimented upon ; and his original method of converting a few wires into a considerable number of circuits, so that they might transmit the greatest number of signals,...
123 ページ - Principles of Mechanism, designed for the use of Students in the Universities, and for Engineering Students generally.
25 ページ - ... the railing, and on placing a galvanometer in the circuit, an electric current was produced, which passed through the intervening mass of earth from one plate to the other, returning by the wire. In the first experiment, the metallic surfaces being small, the electric current produced was feeble, but on using a larger surface of metal a corresponding increase in the energy of the current was obtained, with which an electrotype process was conducted, and various Electro-Magnetic experiments performed...
90 ページ - Telegraphic dictionary. The points are the markings of the Register, each point being marked every time the electric fluid passes. The Register marks but one kind of mark, to wit, (V). This can be varied two ways. By intervals thus (V...
89 ページ - FF are screens, thirty in number, each being fixed to a needle, corresponding to the finger keys before described. When no electricity is passing, these screens remain stationary over the several letters, &c., and conceal them from view; but when a current is made to flow by the depression of a key, the corresponding needle in the distant instrument is deflected, carrying the screen with it, and uncovering the letter, which becomes exposed to view, as at 0.
90 ページ - Professor Morse tried an experiment with a circuit of copper wire one thousand seven hundred feet in length, and of the minimum size of No. 18 wire. The record of the Register was sufficiently perfect to demonstrate the practicability of the plan. On the 4th of September some slight changes were made in the machinery, when the Register recorded perfectly the following signs : — Siieci/nen of Telegraphic writing made by means of electricity at the distance of onethird of a mile.
116 ページ - ... white paper and of the blackened paper used in the manifold writing apparatus, he has been enabled to obtain, without presenting any resistance to the type wheel, several distinct printed copies at the same time of the message transmitted. 2. He has applied the principles of the telegraph described, to enable the time of a single clock to be shown simultaneously in a great number of places, or in other words to telegraph time instead of messages. For this purpose the wheel for making and breaking...

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