Modern Practical Electricity Vol 1

Author : W. E. Ayrton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330066041
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Practical Electricity, Vol. 1 written by W. E. Ayrton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Practical Electricity, Vol. 1: Laboratory and Lecture Course, for First Year Students of Electrical Engineering, Based on the International Definitions of the Electrical Units; Current, Pressure, Resistance, Energy, Power and Cells Exactly ten years have elapsed since the preface to the first edition of this book was written - a decade which has seen a vast development in the applications of electricity to industrial purposes, and the springing up in all parts of the kingdom of Technical Schools and Colleges where much attention is devoted to the study of electrotechnics. Hence, to-day it is far more easy for a student to connect his experimental apparatus with the electric light mains and use a comparatively large current at a pressure of 100 volts, than it was in 1886 to obtain a small current at a much lower pressure from the battery which he had to set up for the purpose. This, possibility of carrying out the experiments on a larger scale has led to considerable simplification in certain cases; for example, in experimentally determining the heat equivalent of electric energy, it is no longer necessary to distract the beginner's attention with a variety of corrections for the loss of heat, &c. After many issues of the book had appeared in its original form, it seemed desirable to bring it up to date; and since the practice, not unfrequently resorted to by writers, of inserting a number of new patches in an antiquated ground work, would be out of place in a book which had been written to aid electrotechnical teaching and not for purposes of profit, a proposition was made to entirely rewrite it. 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.