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Electricity in modern life (1890)

Tunzelmann, George William von, 1856- · New York, Scribner & Welford · leaf 88

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There arefive simple ways of producing the Magnetic Fieldin which the armature ofthe dynamo rotates. Ofthese methods the onefirst employed consists, ashas already been pointedout, in the use of a perma-nent steel magnet. Fig. 13shows, in a diagrammaticform, a machine of thiskind with its circuit.… … 76 ELECTRICITY IN MODERN LIFE. revolves as indicated by the position of the brushes—viz.,in the direction of the hands of a watch. It will be seenthat this is simply the old magneto-electric machine whichformed the original of the modern dynamo; but as thelatter is now adopted as a generic term for…

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