Most of the diagrams have been specially drawn for this book.
The work is divided into XI. chapters as follows:
Introduction; Chapters I. and II, The Galvanometer; III, Rheostats; IV, The Voltmeter; V, The Wheatstone Bridge; VI, Forms of Portable Sets; VII, Current Flow and e.m.f.; VIII, The Potentiometer; IX, Condensers; X, Cable Testing; XI, Testing with Voltmeter.
230 pages, 105 illustrations and diagrams, 12mo., cloth, $1.00.
EVERYBODY’S BOOK ON ELECTRICITY.
PRACTICAL ELECTRICS.
A UNIVERSAL HANDY-BOOK
ON
EVERYDAY ELECTRICAL MATTERS.
FIFTH EDITION.
CONTENTS.
Alarms.—Doors and Windows; Cisterns, Low Water in Boilers; Time Signals; Clocks. Batteries.—Making; Cells; Bichromate; Bunsen; Callan’s; Copper-oxide; Cruikshank’s; Daniel’s; Granule carbon; Groves; Insulite; Leclanché; Lime Chromate; Silver Chloride; Smee; Thermo-electric. Bells.—Annunciator System; Double System; and Telephone; Making; Magnet for; Bobbins or Coils; Trembling; Single Stroke; Continuous Ringing. Connections. Carbons. Coils.—Induction; Primary; Secondary; Contact-breakers; Resistance. Intensity Coils.—Reel; Primary; Secondary; Core; Contact-breaker; Condenser; Pedestal; Commutator; Connections. Dynamo-Electric Machines.—Relation of Speed to Power; Field-Magnets; Pole-pieces; Field-magnet Coils; Armature Cores and Coils; Commutator Collectors and Brushes; Relation of size to efficiency; Methods of exciting Field-Magnets; Magneto-Dynamos; Separately excited Dynamos; Shunt Dynamos; Organs of Dynamos as constructed in practice; Field-Magnets; Armatures; Collectors; Brush Dynamo; Second Class; Alternate Currents; Third Class. Fire Risks.—The Dynamo; Wires; Lamps; Danger to persons. Measuring.—Non-Registering Instruments; Registering Instruments. Microphones.—Construction, &c. Motors.—Application; for Railways. Phonographs. Photophones. Storage.—Plates. Terminals.—Charging. Telephones.—Forms; Circuits and Calls; Transmitter and Switch; Switch for Simplex.
135 PAGES. 126 ILLUSTRATIONS. 8 VO.
Cloth, 75 Cents.