low-tension

Updated: May 25, 2025

The large alternating stations in this country have so clearly demonstrated this that their responsible managers have, within the last few years, done everything possible, by the adoption of block converters and three-wire secondary circuits, to bring their system as close as they could in practice to the low-tension direct-current distribution system.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898