 Take the case of a telegraph wire with its two terminal plates dipped into the earth, and suppose the wire to lie in the magnetic meridian. The ground underneath the wire is influenced like the wire itself by the earth's rotation; if a current from south...  The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 491868Full view - About this book
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 210 pages
...influenced like the wire itself by the earth's rotation ; if a current from south to north be generated in the wire, a similar current from south to north would...wire might give one an advantage over the other, and that thus a residual or differential current might be obtained. He combined wires of different materials,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 192 pages
...influenced like the wire itself by the earth's rotation ; if a current from south to north be generated in the wire, a similar current from south to north would...appears inevitable, but his profound vision perceived ita possible invalidity. He saw that it was at least possible that the difference of conducting power... | |
 | 1868 - 346 pages
...rotation; if a current from south to north be generated in the wire, a similar current from soutli to north would be generated in the earth under the wire ; these currents would run against the game terminal plate, and thus neutralise each other. This inference appears inevitable, but his profound... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 636 pages
...influenced like the wire itself by the earth's rotation ; if a current from south to north be generated in the wire, a similar current from. south to north would...wire might give one an advantage over the other, and that thus a residual or differential current might be obtained. He combined wires of different materials,... | |
 | Bence Jones - 1870 - 512 pages
...wire : these currents would run against the same terminal plate, and thus neutralise each other. c This inference appears inevitable, but his profound...wire might give one an advantage over the other, and that thus a residual or differential current might be obtained. He combined wires of different materials,... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1879 - 358 pages
...current from south to north bo generated in tho wire, a similar current from south ia north would bo generated in the earth under the wire ; these currents...would run against the same terminal plate, and thus neutralise each other." l Another extract of a verjf different kind, and much more intelligible to... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1890 - 206 pages
...influenced like the wire itself by the earth's rotation; if a current from south to north be generated in the wire, a similar current from south to north would...wire might give one an advantage over the other, and that thus a residual or differential current might be obtained. He combined wires of different materials,... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1898 - 352 pages
...earth under the wire ; these currents would run against the same terminal plate, and thus neutralise each other. This inference appears inevitable, but...wire might give one an advantage over the other, and that thus a residual or differential current might be obtained. He combined wires of different materials,... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1898 - 334 pages
...influenced, like the wire itself, by the earth's rotation ; if a current from south to north be generated in the wire, a similar current from south to north would...would run against the same terminal plate, and thus neutralise each other. This inference appears inevitable, but his profound vision perceived its possible... | |
 | George Iles - 1902 - 212 pages
...influenced like the wire itself by the earth's rotation; if a current from south to north be generated in the wire, a similar current from south to north would...these currents would run against the same terminal plates, and thus neutralize each other. This inference appears inevitable, but his profound vision... | |
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