 | Charles W. Vincent, James Mason - Science - 1842 - 346 pages
...clock, rests by its free end on the circumference of the disc. A copper wire is fastened to the fixed end of the spring, and proceeds to one end of the...electro-magnet ; while another wire attached to the clock-frame is continued until it joins the other end of that of the same electro-magnet. A constant... | |
 | English periodicals - 1841 - 646 pages
...clock, rests by its free end on the circumference of the disc. A copper wire is fastened to the fixed end of the spring, and proceeds to one end of the...circuit. By this arrangement the circuit is periodically made and broken, in consequence of the spring resting for one second on a metal division, and the next... | |
 | Physics - 1841 - 1316 pages
...clock, rests by its free end on the circumference of the disc. A copper wire is fastened to the fixed end of the spring, and proceeds to one end of the...electro-magnet; while another wire attached to the clock-frame is continued until it joins the other end of that of the same electromagnet. A constant... | |
 | Chess - 1846 - 416 pages
...clock, rests by its free end on the circumference of the disc. A copper wire is fastened to the fixed end of the spring, and proceeds to one end of the...electro-magnet, while another wire attached to the clock-frame is continued until it joins the other end of that of the same electro-magnet. A constant... | |
 | Science - 1841 - 444 pages
...hard wood, and which has no connexion with the metallic part* of the clock, rests by its free end on the spring, and proceeds to one end of the wire of...electro-magnet ; while another wire attached to the clock-frame is continued until it joins the other end of that of the same electro-magnet. A constant... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1843 - 552 pages
...clock, rests by its free end on the circumference of the disc. A copper wire is fastened to the fixed end of the spring, and proceeds to one end of the...electromagnet. A constant voltaic battery, consisting of n few elements of very small dimensions, is interposed in any part of the circuit. By this arrangement... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1843 - 538 pages
...clock, rests by its free end on the circumference of the disc. A copper wire is fastened to the fixed end of the spring, and proceeds to one end of the...electro-magnet; while another wire attached to the clock-frame is continued until it joins the other end of that of the same electromagnet. A constant... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - Electric power - 1844 - 512 pages
...no connexion with the metallic parts of the clock, rests by its free end on the circumference of the disc. A copper wire is fastened to the end of the...circuit. By this arrangement the circuit is periodically made and broken, in consequence of the spring resting for one second on a metal division and the next... | |
 | Chess - 1846 - 416 pages
...proceeds to one end of the wire of the electro-magnet, while another wire attached to the clock-frame is continued until it joins th,e other end of that...circuit. By this arrangement the circuit is periodically níade and broken, in consequence of the spring resting for one second on a metal division and tbe... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Astronomy - 1856 - 408 pages
...clock, rests by its free end on the circumference of the disc. A copper wire is fastened to the fixed end of the spring, and proceeds to one end of the...electro-magnet ; while another wire attached to the clock-frame is continued until it joins the other end of that of the same electro-magnet. A constant... | |
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... consists of thirty regular alternations of wood and metal. An extremely light brass spring, which is screwed to a block of ivory or hard wood, and which has no connexion with the metallic parts of the clock, rests by its free end on the circumference... 
