"Magnetic intensity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... apparatus illustrated in Fig. 2, and the movable electrode, g, is bent or dished so as to press upon g around its edge. E is a magnet which by its attractive influence upon g holds t up against g with a pressure dependent upon its magnetic intensity and upon its distance from the gauze. By making E an electro-magnet, and including its coil in the telephonic circuit, an instrument may be constructed in which the normal pressure between the electrodes can be automatically adjusted ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 • Various
... was probably at seven A.M. on the 23d, when, after the midnight observation, we travelled, by our account, something more than a mile and a half, which would carry us a little beyond 82 deg. 45'. Some observations for the magnetic intensity were obtained at this station. We here found no bottom with five hundred fathoms of line. At the extreme point of our journey, our distance from the Hecla was only 172 miles in a S. 8 deg. W. direction. To accomplish this distance, we had traversed, by our reckoning, 292 miles, ...
— Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the • Sir William Edward Parry |
