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Definition of Rheostats
1. rheostat [n] - See also: rheostat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rheostats
Literary usage of Rheostats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"REGULATING rheostats. 3812. rheostats used for regulating the speed by being ...
These rheostats have, therefore, to be made much larger than starting boxes ..."
2. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1904)
"Multiple rheostats. Series Multiple rheostats. Multiple Series rheostats.
Automatic rheostats. Automatic Controllers for Pumps, Automatic Current Limiting ..."
3. Electric Traction: A Treatise on the Application of Electric Power to by Alfred Thomas Dover (1917)
"Grid rheostats, of the type used in electric railway work, ... Tests on rheostats
of this type have shown that, on alternating-current circuits of 25 ..."
4. Storage Battery Engineering: A Practical Treatise for Engineers by Lamar Lyndon (1910)
"rheostats. rheostats and variable resistances are used for booster field regulation
and for controlling charge and discharge of small battery equipments, ..."
5. Storage Battery Engineering: A Practical Treatise for Engineers by Lamar Lyndon (1910)
"rheostats. rheostats and variable resistances are used for booster field regulation
and for controlling charge and discharge of small battery equipments, ..."
6. Storage Battery Engineering: A Practical Treatise for Engineers by Lamar Lyndon (1910)
"rheostats. rheostats and variable resistances are used for booster field regulation
and for controlling charge and discharge of small battery equipments, ..."
7. Electrical Designs: Comprising Instructions for Constructing Small Motors (1901)
"The resistance material of rheostats for the regulation of current or potential in
... In the present article rheostats in which the first named material is ..."
8. Electrical Measurements by Frank Arthur Laws (1917)
"Carbon Compression rheostats.—Carbon compression rheostats are exceedingly useful
as laboratory appliances where low-voltage currents are to be ..."
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