Electric apparatus and appliances; Electrical engineering -- Juvenile literature
Measuring Instruments. The Detector. Direction of Current. Simple
Current Detector. How to Place the Detector. Different Ways to Measure
a Current. The Sulphuric Acid Voltameter. The Copper Voltameter. The
Galvanoscope Electro-magnetic Method. The Calorimeter. The Light
Method. The Preferred Method. How to Make a Sulphuric Acid Voltameter.
How to Make a Copper Voltameter. Objections to the Calorimeter.
VI. VOLTS, AMPERES, OHMS AND WATTS Page 60
Understanding Terms. Intensity and Quantity. Voltage.
Amperage Meaning of Watts and Kilowatt. A
Standard of Measurement. The Ampere Standard. The
Voltage Standard. The Ohm. Calculating the Voltage.
VII. PUSH BUTTONS, SWITCHES, ANNUNCIATORS, BELLS AND
LIKE APPARATUS Page 65
Simple Switches. A Two-Pole Switch. Double-Pole Switch. Sliding
Switch. Reversing Switch. Push Buttons. Electric Bells. How Made. How
Operated. Annunciators. Burglar Alarm. Wire Circuiting. Circuiting
System with Two Bells and Push Buttons. The Push Buttons, Annunciators
and Bells. Wiring Up a House.
VIII. ACCUMULATORS, STORAGE OR SECONDARY BATTERIES Page 82
Storing Up Electricity. The Accumulator. Accumulator Plates. The Grid.
The Negative Pole. Connecting Up the Plates. Charging the Cells. The
Initial Charge. The Charging Current.
IX. THE TELEGRAPH Page 90
Mechanism in Telegraph Circuit. The Sending Key. The Sounder.
Connecting Up the Key and Sounder. Two Stations in Circuit. The Double
Click. Illustrating the Dot and the Dash. The Morse Telegraph Code.
Example in Use.
X. HIGH-TENSION APPARATUS, CONDENSERS, ETC. Page 98
Induction. Low and High Tension. Elastic Property of Electricity. The
Condenser. Connecting up a Condenser. The Interrupter. Uses of
High-tension Coils.
XI. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY Page 104
Telegraphing Without Wires. Surging Character of High-tension
Currents. The Coherer. How Made. The Decoherer. The Sending Apparatus.
The Receiving Apparatus. How the Circuits are Formed.
XII. THE TELEPHONE Page 110
Vibrations. The Acoustic Telephone. Sound Waves. Hearing Electricity.
The Diaphragm in a Magnetic Field. A Simple Telephone Circuit. How to
Make a Telephone. Telephone Connections. Complete Installation. The
Microphone. Light Contact Points. How to Make a Microphone.
Microphone, the Father of the Transmitter. Automatic Cut-outs for
Telephones. Complete Circuiting with Transmitters.
XIII. ELECTROLYSIS, WATER PURIFICATION, ELECTROPLATING Page 123
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