Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians with questions and answers; a practical non-technical treatise .. (1913)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 1087
l show that 1058 Steam Engineering the brush while collecting current is at the same time shortcircuiting one of the coils. In order that an excessive current may not be generatedin this short circuited coil it must be out in the interpolarspace at the time the brush touches the two bars… … Fig. 450 and deliver it to the outside wires in the case of a dynamo,and for the opposite in the case of a motor. There are many different designs and constructions ofbrushes and brush-holders, and these designs are broughtabout by the various ideas of different builders in their at-tempt to…