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... the magneto variety, and many ingenious machines of this class were operated with more or less success, being, however, quickly abandoned upon the introduction of the dynamo-machine, which gave currents of much greater electromotive force from the same amount of material, the advantage being chiefly due to the large increase of magnetic intensity in the field magnets. At this period lights of enormous power were produced with ease and by the use of costly lamps. With complicated mechanism a new era ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 • Various

... on the history of chemistry in America, claims for Robert Hare, a Philadelphia chemist born in 1781, the honor of constructing the first electrical furnace. With this crude apparatus and with no greater electromotive force than could be attained from a voltaic pile, he converted charcoal into graphite, volatilized phosphorus from its compounds, isolated metallic calcium and synthesized calcium carbide. It is ...

— Creative Chemistry - Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries • Edwin E. Slosson

... of electrical condition or "potential" between the plates by which the current is started has been called the electromotive force, or force which puts the electricity in motion. The obstruction or hindrance which the electricity overcomes in passing through its conductor is known as the RESISTANCE. Obviously the higher the electromotive ...

— The Story Of Electricity • John Munro

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