Twentieth century handbook for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers; a practical nontechnical treatise .. (1916)
Swingle, Calvin F. (Calvin Franklin), b. 1846 · Chicago, F.J. Drake & company · leaf 1068
ts direction ofmotion vary, a current will be produced within it. Thiscurrent will circle, or eddy around within the conductor,and will absorb energy, and expend it in heating the me- The Dynamo 1033 tallic body of the conductor. These local currents arecalled Foucault or eddy currents, and are a… … Fig. 426 quired to operate the mechanism for changing field andarmature relations, and this energy is absorbed by the dy-namo, and electric energy is produced in its stead. Theeasiest way to comprehend the principles of the dynamo isto follow up its construction from the most simple type, toone of…
