 | Nikola Tesla - Electric action of points - 1892 - 176 pages
...can see—no function to perform. But now let me pass sudden discharges, or a high frequency current, through the wire. Again the wire is heated, this time...well be cut in the middle as not, for practically all the heating -is due to the rarefied gas. Here the gas might only act as a conductor of no impedance... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1893 - 742 pages
...it is heated more on the ends than in the middle portion, and if the frequency, or rate of charge, is high enough, the wire might as well be cut in the middle as not, for most of the heating on the ends is due to the rarefied gas. Here the gas might only act as a conductor... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1893 - 750 pages
...it is heated more on the ends than in the middle portion, and if the frequency, or rate of charge, is high enough, the wire might as well be cut in the middle as not, for most of the heating on the ends is due to the rarefied gas. Here the gas might only act as a conductor... | |
 | Institution of Electrical Engineers - Electrical engineering - 1893 - 838 pages
...can see—no function to perform. But now let me pass sudden discharges, or a high-frequency current, through the wire. Again the wire is heated, this time...well be cut in the middle as not, for practically all the heating is due to the rarefied gas. Here the gas might only act as a conductor of no impedance... | |
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through the wire. Again the wire is heated, this time principally on the ends and least in the middle portion ; and if the frequency of the impulses, or the rate of change, is high enough, the wire might as well be cut in the middle as not, for practically... 