A dictionary of electrical words, terms and phrases (1898)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914 · New York, The W. J. Johnston company · leaf 144
rapidly re-versed. The non-commuted currents generated by thedifferences of potential in the armature of adynamo-electric machine are alternating orsimple-periodic-currents. In a characteristic curve of the electromotiveforces of alternating currents, positive electro-motive forces, or those that… … Fig, 177- Curve of Electromotive Forces of AlternatingCurrents. often called phases, and represent the alternatephases of the current. Current, Alternative —A voltaic alternative. (See Alternatives, Voltaic.)Current, Assumed Direction of Flow of The direction the current is as-sumed to take, z. e.,…
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