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 1313
direct current- motor running on the incomingvoltages. On the same armature core is a separate windingconnected to its own commutator at the other end of arma- 1278 Steam Engineering ture. The one set of field magnets serves for the motorwinding and the generator or dynamo winding. The Rotary… … Fig. 598westinghouse 1,500 k. w. rotary converter the machine be inverted, it may be considered a direct-cur-rent motor, driving an alternating-current generator. As direct current cannot readily be generated at, or trans-formed to a high voltage, which economical distribution dic-tates,…
