. Supplement to Spons dictionary of engineering, civil, mechanical, military, and naval. mented, until the frictional resistance encountered in traversingthe cells was equal to the speed-producing power. The resistance to the rotation of the turbineconsisted in the resultant, in the place of rotation, of the centrifugal force exerted by the currentwhen traversing the curved contour of the cells in the turbine; this resistance, of course, is equal tothe force exerted in the opposite direction upon the cells of the fixed casing. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING. The principal forms of batteries used in el


. Supplement to Spons dictionary of engineering, civil, mechanical, military, and naval. mented, until the frictional resistance encountered in traversingthe cells was equal to the speed-producing power. The resistance to the rotation of the turbineconsisted in the resultant, in the place of rotation, of the centrifugal force exerted by the currentwhen traversing the curved contour of the cells in the turbine; this resistance, of course, is equal tothe force exerted in the opposite direction upon the cells of the fixed casing. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING. The principal forms of batteries used in electrical engineering will be found described at page 226of this Dictionary. Very minor improvements have been made in this branch of elei^trical science, ifthere be excepted Byrnes compound-plate battery which is specially known as the pneumatic chief feature of this battery consists in the negative plate, whieh, instead of being of one material,is constructed of three metals soldered together. The surface exposed to the exciting solution and I ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING. 521.


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