Watts

Examples

• If it is equipped with a three-heat switch, it can be adjusted to 600 watts at full, 300 at medium and 150 at low, which means a great saving in current for most small cooking operations. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Halleck did not know that they had already been delivered into the hands of Major Watts, Confederate commissioner for the exchange of prisoners. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It might be well to explain that the lamp-socket appliances are those operating from the light socket and are built to carry not over 660 watts of current. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If that stove is equipped with a single heat, you will be using the full 600 watts whenever the switch is on. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The lamps were partly of the horseshoe filament paper-carbon type, and partly bamboo-filament lamps, and were of an efficiency of 95 to 100 watts per 16 c. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Let us suppose that you are operating one of the small disc stoves and that the stove will carry 600 watts of current. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• 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.
• The space that a list of the new chemical products of this age and their description would fill, has already been indicated by reference to the great dictionary of Watts. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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