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" If a line be imagined passing from Dover to Calais through the sea, and returning through the land, beneath the water, to Dover, it traces out a circuit of conducting matter one part of which, when the water moves up or down the channel, is cutting the... "
The Artizan - Page 116
1868
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Experimental Researches in Electricity: Series 1-14 [Philosophical ...

Michael Faraday - 1839 - 634 pages
...necessary consequence, that where water is flowing, there electric currents should be formed : thus, if a line be imagined passing from Dover to Calais...the earth, whilst the other is relatively at rest. This is a repetition of the wire experiment (171.), but with worse conductors. Still there is every...
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Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the ..., Volume 5

Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 636 pages
...went to the round lake near Kensington Palace, and stretched 480 feet of copper wire, north and south, over the lake, causing plates soldered to the wire...currents do run in the general direction of the circuit doscribed, either one way or the other, according as the passage of the waters is up or down the Channel."...
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Exercises in electrical and magnetic measurement

Richard Evans Day - 1884 - 222 pages
...one side of a river to the other through the water, and returning through the land beneath the water, it traces out a circuit of conducting matter, one...the earth, whilst the other is relatively at rest; and if we conceive a mass of air or water, or any other substance moving relatively to the earth with...
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Exercises in Electrical and Magnetic Measurement

Richard Evan Day - 1893 - 220 pages
...returning through the land beneath the water, it traces out a circuit of conducting matter, one pnrt of which, when the water moves up or down the channel,...the earth, whilst the other is relatively at rest ; and if we conceive a mass of air or water, or any other substance moving relatively to the earth...
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Invention and Discovery

George Iles - 1902 - 212 pages
...near Kensington Palace, and stretched four hundred and eighty feet of copper wire, north and south, over the lake, causing plates soldered to the wire...channel, is cutting the magnetic curves of the earth, while the other is relatively at rest. . . . There is every 18 reason to believe that currents do run...
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Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the ..., Volume 5

Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 652 pages
...three days during the ebb and B'ow of the tide, but without any satisfactory result. Still he urgse, “Theoretically it seems a necessary consequence,...matter one part of which, when the water moves up er down the channel, is cutting the magnetic curves of the earth, whilst the other is relatively at...
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Marine Electrochemistry

Joan Berkowitz - 1973 - 428 pages
...necessary consequence that where water is flowing, there electric currents should be formed: thus, if a line be imagined passing from Dover to Calais...or down the channel, is cutting the magnetic curves ot the earth 32 whilst the other is relatively at rest. This is a repetition of the wire experiment,...
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