The standard electrical dictionary; a popular dictionary of words, terms, and phrases, used in the practice of electrical engineering (1897)
Sloane, T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor), 1851-1940 · New York, H. W. Henley & co. · leaf 145
ne; it is also used ina lightning arrester to define a path of very high resistance but oflow self-induction, for the lightning to follow to earth. Communicator. The instrument by which telegraph signalsare transmitted is sometimes thus termed. Commutator. In general an apparatus for changing. It… … Fip. 106. DYNAMO ok Motor Commutator. Commutator Bars. The metallic segments of a dynamo ormotor commutator. Commutator, Flats in. A wearing away or lowering in level ofone or more metallic segments of a commutator. They are prob-ably due in many cases to sparking, set up by periodic springing…
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