encounted

Updated: July 16, 2026

Whenever such resistance is encounted in a circuit, the electricity is converted into heat, and when the resistance is great, the heat is, in turn, converted into light, or rather the heat becomes phenomenal in light; that is, the substance which offers the resistance glows with the transformed energy of the impeded current.

- Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century: Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World