An instrument for exhibiting optically or graphically these variations is called an oscillograph, or sometimes an ondograph.
In the Hospitalier ondograph, 1 a synchronous electric motor driven in step with the periodic current in the circuit being tested drives a cylinder of insulating material having a metallic slip let into its edge.
See also a description of the ondograph in the Electrical Review, (1902), 50, 969.
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