Twentieth century handbook for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers; a practical nontechnical treatise on the care and management of steam engines, boilers and electric machinery (1922)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · 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. 598 WESTINGHOUSE 1,500 K. W. ROTARY CONVERTER the machine be invertpd^ 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,…
