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Motor-car principles; the gasoline automobile (1910)

Whitman, Roger B. (Roger Bradbury), 1875-1942 · New York, London, D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 283

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APPENDIX 257 When the armature is placed between the pole pieces, however, it gives the lines of force a path of still lower resistance, and they will therefore follow it, whatever its position may be. If the armature is free to turn, it will take a horizontal position, as shown in Fig. 4, for then… … sible number of lines of force can take the path offered by the neck of the armature. When the armature is in this position, the neck is magnetized by the flow of lines of force through it and sets up a powerful magnetic field which is quite distinct from the field thrown out by the field magnets.…

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