Conductors

Examples

• Substances which, like an air gap, interfere with the flow of electricity are called non-conductors, or, more commonly, insulators. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• His notes include the use of powdered silicon mixed with lime or other very infusible non-conductors or semi-conductors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Whenever Mr. Snagsby and his conductors are stationary, the crowd flows round, and from its squalid depths obsequious advice heaves up to Mr. Bucket. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The percentage of drop varies according to the quantity of copper used in conductors, both as to cross-section and length. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Conductors were run from the station to supply each of the four quarters of the district with light. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Substances which, like the earth, the human body, and all other moist objects, conduct electricity are conductors. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• These data revealed the fact that the quantity of copper required for the main conductors would be exceedingly large and costly; and, if ever, Edison was somewhat dismayed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We are able to hear easily through the walls of many rooms because the material used in those walls are good conductors of sound. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• One notable afternoon was that on which the New York board of aldermen took a special train out to Menlo Park to see the lighting system with its conductors underground in operation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He said he wanted to sell the energy outside of the station and not waste it in the dynamo and conductors, where it brought no profits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Even admitting that the size and weight of his low-tension conductors necessitated putting them underground, this argues nothing against the propriety and sanity of his methods. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The electric or etheric waves thereby set up are detected and received by another special form of apparatus more or less distant, without any intervening wires or conductors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The street conductors were of the overhead pole-line construction, and were installed by the construction company that had been organized by Edison to build and equip central stations. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We know that some things are better conductors of heat than others, and just in that same way, some things conduct sound better than others. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Of these two Brockton required the larger plant, but with the conductors placed underground. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• All metals and water are good conductors. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• This lamp must possess the quality of requiring only a small investment in the copper conductors reaching it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The tremendous problems of heat and the prohibitive quantities of copper that would be required for conductors for such lamps would be absolutely out of the question in commercial practice. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• With these conductors and pipes must also be furnished manholes, junction-boxes, connections, and a host of varied paraphernalia insuring perfect general distribution. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Signor Marconi used the vertical conductors and the Hertz-oscillation principle, and his system is described in his United States patent. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The Feeder invention overcame this trouble, and made it possible to use conductors ONLY ONE-EIGHTH THE SIZE that would otherwise have been necessary to produce the same results. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Through these the conductors were drawn, two half-round copper wires kept in place first by heavy cardboard and afterward by rope. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The reference figures are used as before, except that the horizontal lines extending from square marked G represent the main conductors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• On the other hand, in the multiple-arc system, current may be considered as flowing in two parallel conductors like the vertical sides of a ladder, the ends of which never come together. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Each lamp is placed in a separate circuit across these two conductors, like a rung in the ladder, thus making a separate and independent path for the current in each case. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Other walls made of different kinds of material, are not as good conductors of sound. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The conductors having been drawn in, a preparation of asphaltum and linseed oil was forced into the piping to serve as insulation. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Two of the Z type dynamos were used for generating the current, which was conveyed to the two rails of the road by underground conductors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• While working at Stratford Junction, he says, I was told by one of the freight conductors that in the freight-house at Goodrich there were several boxes of old broken-up batteries. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He first used the terms _conductors and electrics per se_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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