The Journal Of The Institution Of Electrical Engineers 1920 Vol 58 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Originally the Society of Telegraph Engineers, 1920: Supplement to Vol. 57, 1919 After a great deal of consideration Gamgee decided to adopt thermo-electric couples in preference to resist ance thermometers, and I think it will be generally agreed that for work of high precision his decision was a correct one. The construction of his apparatus is fully explained in his paper, but it may be of interest to give a short description. The thermometers used were of two kinds, one for taking the temperature of the surface of the skin and the second for the temperature of the cavities of the body. The materials of which the thermo-electric couples were made were copper-constantan, materials which long experience has shown form' one of the most satisfactory thermo-elements. 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.