Excerpt from Experimental Science, Vol. 2: Elementary, Practical and Experimental Physics
The Weston arc lamp is shown in pet's. Pective in Fig. 506 and in detail in Figs. 507, 508 and 509. In this lamp the arc is some. What less than one thirty-second of an inch in length. As com pared with most other systems it is extremely short. The arc in the Brush system is nearly one eighth of an inch.
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