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ABSTRACT PRACTICAL electricians have laboured up to the present time under a considerable difficulty in attempting to measure the strength of very powerful electric currents, such as are,
for example, employed in the production of the electric light. There has been no simple instrument suited to the rapid direct measurement of the strength of such currents, much less one that
would measure any fluctuations of short duration. Ordinary galvanometers have not been equal to the task, being adapted for a different class of work, usually of too high a resistance to be
safely introduced into the circuit, and in general too leisurely in their movements to afford indications of any rapid fluctuations. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is
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THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE _Marcel Deprez's Galvanometer for Strong Currents_ . _Nature_ 22, 246–247 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022246b0 Download citation * Issue Date: 15
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