Electric transmission of power : its present position and advantages (1879)
Higgs, Paget · London ; New York : Spon · leaf 37
r specially arranged for great sensitiveness. Thespeed was varied by means of a weight and a spring,attached to a lever on the throttle-valve spindle. Thepower was transmitted from the engine to a countershaftby means of a strap, and by a second strap from thecountershaft to the pulley of the… … The tension difference in the two parts of the strapof the dynamometer and the velocity of rotation ofthe machine being known, the power received was EFFICIENCY OF DTNAMO-ELECTKIC MACHINES. 27 obtained, expressed in gram-centimfetres per second.Multiplying by 981, the valne of gravity in…
Electric power production
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