Electric Lighting And Miscellaneous Applications Of Electricity A Text Book For Technical Schools And Colleges Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Electric Lighting The application of electricity to the production of light is of but recent date, even as a scientific discovery; and as a matter of practical use for commercial purposes, it goes back but a very few years. Sir Humphrey Davy, at the Royal Institution in 1810, by breaking the continuity of the circuit of an electric current emanating from a battery of 2000 cells, and by separating slightly the two extremities of the broken circuit, produced a most brilliant light in an arch-like form in the intervening space. The name of the "voltaic arc" has been given to this strip of light; while that of "electrodes" has been assigned to the two points between which the arc is formed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.