The writer well remembers meeting a man of some experience in cable work who was on his way to measure the alternating currents in a Jablochkoff candle installation by the aid of an Ayrton and Perry galvanometer with steel needle!
Stimulation is effected either by single break-shock or by the summated effects of a definite number of equi-alternating shocks, or by chemical stimulation Experiment 45.
On completion of the constant current circuit, the alternating induction current not only passes through the shorter path EE′ but also by the circuitous path of the constant current circuit.
Before completing the constant current circuit, the alternating induction current goes only through the path EE′.
The choking coil C prevents the alternating induction current from flowing into the polarising circuit and causing direct stimulation of the pulvinus.
We may again employ additive effect of a definite number of induction shocks, the alternating elements of which are exactly equal and opposite.
Some of the columns which support the archway have tier upon tier of stalactites, drooping so as to counterfeit water flowing from a fountain, alternating with stalactite formation like boughs of weeping willow.
But in so far as it illustrates the alternating periods of abundance and scarcity, the vision of medieval England concerns us here before we quit the subject of famine-pestilences.
The saying really means, not that England was a poor country, which would be an absurd repute for foreigners to have fixed upon her; but that the English were subject to alternating periods of abundance and scarcity, of surfeit and starvation.
This alternating process goes on until the dyeing is finished, when the goods are washed off, squeezed and dried.
The county slopes very gradually from the mountainous districts in the north down to the sea, lofty hills alternating in parts with stretches of tableland or rich fertile holms.
Luxuriant meadows showered with golden buttercups, alternating with patches of highly-scented red and white clover, while the air seemed freighted with the balsamic odor of the crowning foliage.
Josie, you are beginning to disgrace a fellow already," cried Herbert, alternating the words with genuine laughter.
It may be attached to any electric light socket of 110 volts direct or alternating current.
Alternating between the two positions, I combined the advantages of both.
I returned to my old pursuits and to the enjoyment of a country life in the south of Europe, alternating twice a year with a residence of some weeks or months in the neighbourhood of London.
Alternating with this last whorl were three columns, all apparently perfectly formed and differing only from the ordinary one in their smaller size and corresponding to a 1, a 2, a 3.
Begonia frigida already alluded to, and in which, in the centre of a male flower, were four free ovoid ovaries alternating with as many stamens.
Duchartre describes some orange blossoms as presenting alternating series of stamens and pistils one above another, while the calyces and corollas belonging to each series of stamens and pistils were entirely suppressed.
That diagnosis got revised the next morning when I awoke with a mind-numbing headache, chills alternating with a mild fever, and my chest feeling like it was caught in a compactor.
Instead I just bored in, hoping to stare him down, but his eyes had grown distant, that little trick he had of alternating between intimacy and remoteness.
Pour the mixtures into a tin, alternating the colors twice; they will run together and make a mottled cake.
If much cheese is liked, it may be put into the dish in two layers, alternating the seasoning with the macaroni.
Bake in separate tins; cut before serving; arrange the slices with the two colors alternating on a lace paper.
A simple decoration is obtained by having the strips of cake in two colors, alternating the upper, or browned, with the under, or white, side of the cake.
I will give you a good salary and alternatingroles with Mela for I know that you are a capable actress.
When a person stands in an accordant poise the walk is a progression forward and a levitation upward rhythmically and freely, the spiral lines alternating with every step.
Passivity alternating with activity brings rest to the human heart and is the best mode of rest.
It is to its records of romance and heroism, of legend and history, as well as to its alternating scenes of stormy grandeur and tranquil majesty that the reader's attention is now invited.
The lowest of the group attains an elevation of nearly two thousand feet, almost perpendicular, while at the summit of the crags rise a thousand feet higher yet long grassy slopes alternating with splendid forests.
Pleasing pictures flitted before their eyes--the country cousin received (on a Box and Cox basis) by a Parisian old gentlewoman sans peur and sans reproche; a day of seclusion for each alternating with a day of ostentatious publicity.
For Marcelle imagined an amour of the darkest dye, and could not understand Eileen's calmness any more than Eileen could understand Marcelle's romantic palpitations alternating with suggestive sniggerings.
I could feel her poor little heart fluttering wildly, and knew that her face was alternating from red to white beneath the mask.
During the ritornels the four principal dancers accompanied them in "a ballet enlivened with capers," and at the close of the performance stanzas were sung, alternating with dances to be executed "sedately and reverentially.
It is introduced by a short instrumental prelude, Zion, represented by the tenor voice, and the Believers by the chorus, coming in after a few bars and alternating with extraordinary vocal effect.
The next number is the "Offertorium," in which the voices are limited to a simple phrase of two notes, A alternating with B flat, which is never varied throughout the somewhat long movement.
Probably there were several alternating eras of fire and frost and flood.
A steel bar may satisfactorily pass a tensile test applied in one direction, only to break down disastrously under alternating stresses each less severe.
Inventors took great pains in devising apparatus to convert these alternating pulses into a direct current such as that yielded by a voltaic battery.
Experience proves that a very moderate stress alternating from tension to compression, if repeated about a hundred million times, will cause fracture as surely as bending to a sharp angle repeated a few hundred times.
Hewitt lamps use either a direct or an alternating current.
To-day thealternating current for many important purposes, including transportation, is employed just as it leaves the dynamo.
Put a large disc over the clutch drum, then a small disc, alternating with large and small discs until the entire set of discs are in position, ending up with a large disc on top.
As he lives from hand to mouth, alternating between hunger and superfluity, he kills more animals than he can eat, and robs and maltreats men more than is necessary.
In this curious power of alternating between cynicism and lyricism, Nietzsche appears as the prose counterpart of Heine.
To distinguish the Bell Rock Light from others on the coast, as noticed at page 401, it is made to revolve, and to exhibit periodically a bright light of the natural appearance, alternating with a red coloured light.
They describe the highest perfection of human nature as growing out of the better variety of madness--out of the glowing inspirations of Eros: a state replete with the most intense alternating emotions of pain and pleasure.
