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Rheostat   Listen
noun
Rheostat  n.  (Elec.) A contrivance for adjusting or regulating the strength of electrical currents, operating usually by the intercalation of resistance which can be varied at will.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Rheostat" Quotes from Famous Books



... the arc may be made by running the current through a water rheostat or through 15 ft. of No. 25 gauge German-silver wire. —Contributed by ...
— The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 - 700 Things For Boys To Do • Popular Mechanics

... arc may be made by running the current through a water rheostat or through 15 ft. of No. 25 gauge German-silver wire. —Contributed by R. H. Galbreath, ...
— The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 - 700 Things For Boys To Do • Popular Mechanics

... determined; no difficulty has, however, been experienced in laboratory experiments in conversing through a resistance of 60,000 ohms, which has been the maximum at my disposal. On one occasion, not having a rheostat [for producing resistance] at hand, I passed the current through the bodies of sixteen persons, who stood hand in hand. The longest length of real telegraph line through which I have attempted to converse has been about ...
— Little Masterpieces of Science: - Invention and Discovery • Various

... "but did you ever hear what you could do with a microphone, a rheostat, and a small transformer coil if you attached them properly to a direct-current electric lighting circuit? No? Well, an amateur with a little knowledge of electricity could do it. The thing is easily constructed, and the result is a most ...
— Guy Garrick • Arthur B. Reeve

... clicked the transmitter and receiver switches on and off, moved a rheostat or two. He reached up to a wall toggle, turned a small air-circulating fan on and off. "Everything else seems to work," ...
— Breaking Point • James E. Gunn



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