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SINCE the experiments of the late Mr. Duddell, at the beginning of this century, it has been well known that a carbon arc fed from a direct current circuit, and with a condenser and inductance in shunt, will oscillate at a frequency which is determined chiefly by the product of the inductance into the capacity of the condenser. Much work has been done, especially in Germany, on the conditions producing these oscillations, but it does not appear to have been noticed that such an arc will oscillate violently when the shunt circuit contains no inductance whatever.
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CRAMP, W., JARVIS, A. A Phenomenon of the Oscillating Arc. Nature 124, 913 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124913a0
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