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Electricity in modern life (1890)

Tunzelmann, George William von, 1856- · New York, Scribner & Welford · leaf 250

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APTER XVI. ELECTRO-MOTORS AND THEIR USES. An electro-motor is really nothing but a dynamo workingbackwards—that is to say, one which, instead of being drivenby the application of external power, and thereby trans-forming the energy supplied by a steam engine or otherprime motor into the form of… … Fig. 79. made by Messrs. Immiscli & Co., one of the few firmswhich have devoted themselves to the construction andimprovement of the electro-motor, and whose motors have 230 ELECTRICITY IN MODERN LIFE. already obtained a world-wide reputation for high efficiencyand good workmanship. Another…

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