Lecture 17: Arc Lighting
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Source Metadata
Section titled “Source Metadata”| Field | Value |
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| Source | General Lectures on Electrical Engineering |
| Year | 1908 |
| Section ID | general-lectures-electrical-engineering-lecture-17 |
| Location | lines 9920-12795 |
| Status | candidate |
| Word Count | 20719 |
| Equation Candidates In Section | 17 |
| Figure Candidates In Section | 2 |
| Quote Candidates In Section | 0 |
Opening Source Excerpt
Section titled “Opening Source Excerpt”SEVENTEENTH LECTURE ARC LIGHTING W"^HILE incandescent lamps can be operated on constant potential as well as on constant current, the arc is —^ essentially a constant current phenomenon. At con- stant length, the voltage consumed by the arc decreases with increase of current, as shown by curve I in Fig. 47. If, there- fore, an attempt is made to operate such an arc on constant potential, for instance on 80 volts — which would correspond to 3.9 amperes on curve I — then any tendency of the current to increase — as by a momentary drop of the arc resistance — would lower the required arc voltage, and so increase the cur- rent, at constant supply voltage, hence still further lower the arc voltage, etc., and a short circuit would result. Vice versa, a momentarySource-Located Theme Snippets
Section titled “Source-Located Theme Snippets”Radiation / light
Section titled “Radiation / light”SEVENTEENTH LECTURE ARC LIGHTING W"^HILE incandescent lamps can be operated on constant potential as well as on constant current, the arc is —^ essentially a constant current phenomenon. At con- stant length, the voltage consumed by the arc decreases with increase of current, as shown by curve I in Fi ...Waves / transmission lines
Section titled “Waves / transmission lines”... ing energy, is a vibratory motion of a hypothetical medium, the ether, which vibration is transmitted or propagated at a velocity of about 188,000 miles per second; and it is a transverse vibration, differing from the vibratory energy of sound in this respect, that the sound waves are longitudinal, that is, the vibration is in the direction of the beam, while the vibration of radiation is transverse. Radiating energy can be derived from other forms of energy, for instance, from heat energy by raising a body to a 230 GENERAL LECTURES high temper ...Lightning / surges
Section titled “Lightning / surges”... re. Practically nothing has yet been done in this direction systematically and intelligently, but all has been done by trial which at the best usually means producing more light than necessary, and throw- ing away the excess of diffused light by absorption. APPENDIX II LIGHTNING AND LIGHTNING PROTECTION Paper read before the Annual Convention of the National Electric Light Association, 1907. Revised to date. L LIGHTNING PHENOMENA IN THE CLOUDS. /n^ HE first man who attacked the problem of lightning and I lightning protection, a century and hal ...Field language
Section titled “Field language”... t or alternating current. For direct current constant current supply, separate arc light machines have been built, and are still largely used. In these machines, inherent regulation for constant current is produced by using a very high armature reaction and relatively weak field excitation; that is, the armature ampere turns are nearly equal and opposite to the field ampere turns, and thus both very large compared with the difference, the resultant ampere turns, which produce the magnetic field. A moderate increase of current and consequent increase ...Chapter-Local Concept Hits
Section titled “Chapter-Local Concept Hits”| Concept Candidate | Hits In Section | Status |
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| Light | 422 | seeded |
| Illumination | 102 | seeded |
| Radiation | 85 | seeded |
| Frequency | 44 | seeded |
| Spectrum | 29 | seeded |
| Arc lamp | 28 | seeded |
| Wave length | 23 | seeded |
| Ether | 14 | seeded |
| Ultra-violet radiation | 11 | seeded |
| Ultra-red radiation | 5 | seeded |
| Brilliancy | 4 | seeded |
| Refraction | 2 | seeded |
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Equation Candidates
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general-lectures-electrical-engineering-eq-candidate-0118 | potential, for instance on 80 volts — which would correspond | line 9932 |
general-lectures-electrical-engineering-eq-candidate-0119 | the current, and a resistance of 8 ohms inserted in series to the | line 9952 |
general-lectures-electrical-engineering-eq-candidate-0120 | Fig. 47. The voltage consumed by the arc plus the resistance | line 9954 |
general-lectures-electrical-engineering-eq-candidate-0121 | Fig. 47, is reached, at which for decreasing current the arc | line 10322 |
general-lectures-electrical-engineering-eq-candidate-0122 | stability curve IV. For instance, at 4 amperes, the arc cannot | line 10329 |
general-lectures-electrical-engineering-eq-candidate-0123 | machine necessarily must be a small unit, since 100 to 150 | line 10414 |
general-lectures-electrical-engineering-eq-candidate-0124 | to 80 volts per lamp are used ; in the alternating current titan- | line 10672 |
general-lectures-electrical-engineering-eq-candidate-0125 | power of 5 X 10* K. W. Estimating the energy of the discharge, | line 12171 |
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general-lectures-electrical-engineering-fig-047 | ^ Fig. 47. seen, below 3.35 amperes, the total required voltage still | line 10298 |
general-lectures-electrical-engineering-fig-048 | 48. The primary coil P and the secondary coil S are movable Fig. 48. with regard to each other (which of the two coils is movable, | line 10437 |
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Ether-Field Interpretive Boundary
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