Volts

Examples

• In this diagram G<1S> and G<2S> represent two generators, each producing current at a potential of 110 volts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Trolley circuits are usually 500 volts, and will kill an animal, but are not necessarily fatal to man. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A stream of this liquid has been directed upon a circuit of 110,000 volts without the least harm to the operator. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The meters commonly used measure the amperes, volts, and time automatically, and register the electric power supplied in watt hours. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• By connecting them in series this potential is doubled, thus providing a main circuit (P and N) of 220 volts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The early arc lamps were rated to require 9 to 10 amperes of current, at 45 volts pressure each, receiving which they were estimated to give 2000 c. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Low tension circuits, such as are used for incandescent lights, range from 100 to 240 volts and are harmless. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The figures marked L represent eight lamps of 110 volts each, in multiple series of two, in four derived circuits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The lamps are 110 volts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Objections were naturally made to rails out in the open on the street surface carrying large currents at a potential of twenty volts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• At the generating station at Menlo Park four Z dynamos of 110 volts were used, connected two in series, in multiple arc, giving a line voltage of 220. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• High tension currents from 2,000 to 5,000 volts, such as are used for arc lights, are fatal. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The distribution mains were to be of sufficiently large size that between their most extreme points the loss would not be more than 3 volts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Thus a current of from one to two volts, and one to several thousand amperes, is best suited. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Terribly shocks ran over her body, like shocks of electricity, as if many volts of electricity suddenly struck her down. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Each side, if considered separately, has a potential of about 110 volts, yet the potential of the two outside conductors, P and N, is 220 volts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The watt then would be the volt multiplied by the ampere; thus 500 watts would be 10 amperes at 50 volts, or 50 amperes at 10 volts. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It should be borne in mind that the incandescent lamp which was accepted at the time as a standard (and has so remained to the present day) was a lamp of 110 volts or thereabouts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As a motor, it was wound to run at maximum speed to develop a torque equal to about fifteen horse-power with 220 volts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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