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Example sentences for "electric currents"

  • It is a sensation caused by the increased activity of the molecules of which a body is composed, and, is produced by electric currents.

  • Every year new facts are discovered showing that electricity is the cosmic, evolving, ultimate and only force in nature and the universe is a vast electric machine or organism moved by electric currents of measureless force and power.

  • In recent years many persons have been restored to health and strength by the direct use of electric currents, and many diseases have been cured by electric appliances.

  • Defn: To stimulate with, or subject to, faradic, or inducted, electric currents.

  • Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta, who first devised apparatus for developing electric currents by chemical action, and established this branch of electric science; discovered by Volta; as, voltaic electricity.

  • Defn: The art or process of measuring the force of electric currents.

  • Defn: An instrument for the exact measurement of electric currents.

  • The similarity of action, almost amounting to identity, between common magnets and either electro-magnets or volta-electric currents, is strikingly in accordance with and confirmatory of M.

  • These considerations, with their consequence, the hope of obtaining electricity from ordinary magnetism, have stimulated me at various times to investigate experimentally the inductive effect of electric currents.

  • Again, Ampère and Faraday were also of the opinion that the magnetism of the earth was due to the circulation of electric currents round it, for in par.

  • The parallel case to that of electric currents is given by placing two magnetic needles side by side with like poles in the same direction.

  • This view has, however, no foundation in experiment beyond that afforded by the appearance of electric currents, when the brain is excited.

  • Von Strombeck could detect no electric currents in the veins worked in the clay slate near Saint Goar, on the Rhine: Archiv.

  • Observations of Electric Currents in Vegetable Structures: by Golding Bird, Esq.

  • Starting from the discovery of Oersted, the illustrious French philosopher had shown that all the phenomena of magnetism then known might be reduced to the mutual attractions and repulsions of electric currents.

  • He began his experiments 'on the induction of electric currents' by composing a helix of two insulated wires which were wound side by side round the same wooden cylinder.

  • His explanation was based upon his own great discovery of magneto-electric currents.

  • The branch of science which treats of the properties of electric currents; dynamical electricity.

  • An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.

  • The object of these articles is to lay down in the simplest and most intelligible way the principles which are concerned in the mechanical production of electric currents.

  • On the Mechanical Production of Electric Currents.

  • Faraday's copper disk rotated between the poles of a magnet, and producing thereby an electric current, became the parent of innumerable machines in which mechanical energy was directly converted into the energy of electric currents.

  • These advances all centre round his supreme discovery of the induction of electric currents.


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