ground connection
Americannoun
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The ground connection is broken before the charged rod is removed, leaving the sphere with an excess charge opposite to that of the rod.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
While the cause might have been a faulty alternator, or even a loose ground connection, it turned out to be a faulty new battery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of the ground connection there is a second antenna.—one antenna on each side of the spark-gap.
From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth
Make a thoroughly good ground connection with leaders, have all joints well soldered, and you may dispense with the rod as you propose.
An endeavor to apply this principle to common-battery systems without the objections noted above has led to the adoption of a modification, wherein a relay at each station normally holds the ground connection open.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Miller, Kempster
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