Word: current
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more powerful machines are called "Series machines," in which the current from the dynamo is strengthened by passing through all the large coil of its electric-magnet. The ordinary are light is made by breaking the outside circuit of a Series machine. The carbon tips must be together when the current is started, and the break is made by lifting the upper one a little by a mechanical arrangement. The powerful current, in overcoming the resistance offered by the air, heats the carbon tips to a white heat. In the incandescent lamp the resistance is offered by a filament...
...entirely distinct from the Yale Glee and Banjo Clubs and has no direct connection with them, as any one reading the posters announcing the concert might have inferred. The Appolo Club is a university organization and has been established but a short time. If one can judge from current reports of its success, however, the concert at Newton will be a good...
...students yesterday, some ten men have already been signed, each one pledging himself to take the course next year in case the request should prove successful. The authorities can have no better way of judging what should be added to the list of electives than by noticing the current of undergraduate interest in these moves. We will not dwell on the obvious need of these studies-the list of signatures will throw aside all doubt on that point; but we do hope something more salutary to the college at large will come from the petitions than their mere consignment...
Johns Hopkins University is short of funds to defray its current expenses on account of the failure of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to pay a dividend, the income to the University from this source having been about $120,000 annually...
...received, thus far, only $1000.00 in all upon subscriptions, and has to contend with the serious obstacle of promises instead of cash payments. Judging by the expenses of the last three years-at Yale and Columbia, as well as here-at least $5000.00 will be needed for the current expenses of '88. There are nearly 2000 men connected with the University, and it seems to the committee that it ought to be possible to obtain the $5000.00 at once...