 | American Philosophical Society - Learned institutions and societies - 1893 - 806 pages
...intensity magnet I designated a piece of soft iron so surrounded with wire that its magnetic power could be called into operation by an ' intensity ' battery,...could be fully developed by a 'quantity' battery."* Clearly, therefore, we owe to Henry the credit of having first worked out practically the functions... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Learned institutions and societies - 1894 - 810 pages
...intensity magnet I designated a piece of soft iron so surrounded with wire that its magnetic power could be called into operation by an ' intensity ' battery,...could be fully developed by a 'quantity' battery."* Clearly, therefore, we owe to Henry the credit of having first worked out practically the functions... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1858 - 452 pages
...magnet I designated a piece of soft iron, so surrounded with wire that its magnetic power could be called into operation by an intensity battery, and...magnetism could be fully developed by a quantity battery. I was the first to point out this connexion of the two kinds of the battery with the two forms of the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1858 - 830 pages
...magnet I designated a piece of soft iron, so surrounded with wire that its magnetic power could be called into operation by an intensity battery, and...magnetism could be fully developed by a quantity battery. I was the first to point out this connexion of the two kinds of the battery with the two forms of the... | |
 | 1862 - 736 pages
...magnet I designated a piece of soft iron, BO surrounded with wire that its magnetic power could be called into operation by an intensity battery, and...magnetism could be fully developed by a quantity battery. I was the first to point out this connection of the two kinds of the battery with the two forms of... | |
 | James Curtis Booth, Campbell Morfit - Science - 1862 - 740 pages
...iron, so surrounded with wire that its magnetic power could be called into operation by an intensify battery, and by a quantity magnet, a piece of iron...magnetism could be fully developed by a quantity battery. I was the first to point out this connection of the two kinds of the battery with the two forms of... | |
 | Science - 1881 - 824 pages
...be called into operation by an ' intfiisily' battery ; and by a quantity magnet, a piece of iron s» surrounded by a number of separate coils that its magnetism could be fully developed by a 'quantity' batti-ry.1' (Smithsonian Report for 1857, p. 103.) Although these terms are somewhat antiquated, and... | |
 | Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - Science - 1874 - 640 pages
...intensity magnet I designated a piece of soft iron so surrounded with wire that its magnetic power could be called into operation by an ' intensity' battery ; and by a quantity magnet, a piece of iron s» surrounded by a number of separate coils that its magnetism could be fully developed by a 'quantity'... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1879 - 588 pages
...experiments the terms 'intensity' and 'quantity' magnets were introduced to avoid circumlocution, and wore intended to be used merely in a technical sense. By...of action, both in the battery and in the magnet. { Beyond a certain maximum length, there is of course a decrease of power for each differing coil of... | |
 | William Bower Taylor - Physicists - 1879 - 162 pages
...b« called into operation by an ' intensity' battery ; and by a quantity magnet, a piece of iron se surrounded by a number of separate coils that its...'quantity' battery." (Smithsonian Report for 1857, p. 103.) Although these terms are somewhat antiquated, and repudiated by recent writers, they will be retained... | |
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... and quantity magnets were introduced to avoid circumlocution, and were intended to be used merely in a technical sense. By the intensity magnet I designated a piece of soft iron so surrounded with wire that its magnetic power could be called into... 
