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 1141
disconnected byopening the main switch, it would at once begin acting asa generator and sending out current. This can be easilyseen with any motor equipped with a starting box, such as 1112 Steam Engineering shown; for the current from the motor will continne toenergize the fields^ and the little… … Fig. 486 The electromotive force set up by a motor always op-l^iposes that of the dynamo driving it; that is^ the currentiwhich the motor tends to send out would flow in the op-posite direction to that which is driving it. This may be compared^ and is somewhat. similar, tothe back pressure of the…
