"Induced current" Quotes from Famous Books
... see that a north magnet pole is being attracted in from behind into a circuit round which, as he views it, the current flows in an opposite sense to that in which the hands of a clock move round. Now, compare this figure with Fig. 12, which represents the generation of a momentary induced current by the act of moving the north pole, N, toward a wire ring, which is in this case connected with a little detecter galvanometer, G. The momentary current flows round the circuit (as seen by the spectator ... — Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 • Various
... from the station that despatches 'em, and all these little particles are attracted together—cohere, we call it—for just so long as the current passes through them. Now, it's important to remember that the current is an induced current. There are a good many kinds ... — Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling |