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.—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; Field-Magnets; Armatures; Collectors; Brush Dynamo; Alternate Currents. Fire Risks.—Wires; Lamps; Danger to persons. Measuring.—Non-Registering Instruments; Registering Instruments. Microphones. Motors. Phonographs. Photophones. Storage. Telephones.—Forms; Circuits and Calls; Transmitter and Switch; Switch for Simplex; etc., etc.
135 PAGES. 126 ILLUSTRATIONS. 8VO.
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THE MODEL ENGINEER AMATEUR ELECTRICIAN
A Journal of Mechanics and Electricity for Amateurs and Students
Edited by PERCIVAL MARSHALL
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