The standard electrical dictionary : a popular encyclopaedia of words and terms used in the practice of electrical engineering / by T. O'Conor Sloane.

T. O'Conor Sloane

Date:: 1898

Credit: The standard electrical dictionary : a popular encyclopaedia of words and terms used in the practice of electrical engineering / by T. O'Conor Sloane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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$/ 22 STANDARD BIyBCTRICAIv DICTIONARY. Dollars (f) Decimal Point (.) Cents (c) _ _ _ Paragraph (f) ^ Pence (d.) Fractional Mark ( —) - Capitalized I^etter — Italics or Underline Colon followed by Quotation : — Parenthesis ( ) Brackets [ ] • — _-.« Quotation Marks Quotation within a Quotation ' ' The principal differences in the two codes are the use of spaces in the American code, such being excluded from the Interna- tional code. This affects the letters C, R, Y, & Z. The following diagram, due to Commandant Perian, enables the letter corresponding to an International code sign to be rapidly found with tiie exception of R. A \ /\ /x /\/\ /A/X, /\/\ *« V-P U t aP J B XC Y 2 Q^O C^ Fig. lo. Diagram for translating the Morse Alphabet. In order to find what letter corresponds to a given sign, starting from the top of the diagram, each line is traced down to a bifur- cation, taking the right hand line of each bifurcation for a dus/i,$