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" Thompson defines a dynamo-electric machine as " a machine for converting energy in the form of mechanical power into energy in the form of electric currents, or vice versa, by the operation of setting conductors to rotate in a magnetic field, or by varying... "
Naval Electricians' Text Book - Page 442
by William Hannum Grubb Bullard - 1908 - 976 pages
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Dynamo-electric Machinery: A Manual for Students of Electrotechnics

Silvanus Phillips Thompson - Electric generators - 1888 - 698 pages
...IN the first chapter, the definition was laid down that dynamo-electric machinery meant " machinery for converting energy in the form of mechanical power...into energy in the form of electric currents, or vice versd." Up to the present point we have treated the dynamo solely in its functions as a generator of...
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Dynamo-electric Machinery: A Manual for Students of Electrotechnics

Silvanus Phillips Thompson - Electric generators - 1888 - 694 pages
...CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. HISTORICAL NOTES AND ELECTRlCAL UNlTS. A dynamo-electric machine is a machine for converting energy in the form of mechanical power into energy in tlie form of electric currents, or vice versa, by the operation of setting conductors (usually in the...
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Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania

Royal Society of Tasmania - Science - 1890 - 854 pages
...propulsion of tramway cars. Professor Sylvanus Thompson defines a dynamo-electric machine as " a machine for converting energy in the form of mechanical power into energy in the form of elei-tric currents, or vice versa, by the operation of setting conductors to rotate in a magnetic field,...
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Edison: Edison system of electric railways. 1891

Electric apparatus and appliances - 1891 - 514 pages
...which were themselves excited by the currents so generated. A dynamo-electric machine is a machine for converting energy in the form of mechanical power into energy in the form of electric currents, by the operation of setting conductors (usually in the form of coils of copper wire) to rotate in a...
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Dynamo-electric Machinery: A Manual for Students of Electrotechnics

Silvanus Phillips Thompson - Electric generators - 1892 - 934 pages
...the first chapter, the definition was laid down that dynamo•electric machinery meant " machinery for converting energy in the form of mechanical power into energy in the form oi electric currents, or vice versd." Having dealt with the dynamo in its function as a generator of...
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Electrical Measurements and Other Advanced Primers of Electricity

Edwin James Houston - Electric measurements - 1893 - 460 pages
...In the first chapter, the definition was laid down that dynamo-electric machinery meant " machinery for converting energy in the form of mechanical power...in the form of electric currents, or vice versa." Up to the present point we have treated the dynamo solely in its functions as a generator of electric...
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The Chautauquan: A Weekly Newsmagazine. [Official Publication of Chautauqua ...

1893 - 780 pages
...conductor traversed by an electric current. The dynamo-electric machine may be defined as a machine for converting energy in the form of mechanical power into energy in the form of an electric current (or vice versa), by the movement, with reference to each other, of an electric...
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The Chicago Medical Recorder, Volume 9

Medicine - 1895 - 534 pages
...output under given conditions of speed and load. A magneto- or dynamo-electric machine is a machine for converting energy in the form of mechanical power into energy in the form of electric currents. I pass around a drawing of a small magneto or dynamo-electrie machine or current generator which is...
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A Dictionary of Electrical Words, Terms and Phrases, Volume 1

Edwin James Houston - Electric engineering - 1898 - 1010 pages
...former, generators. Prof. SP Thompson defines a dynamo-electric machine as follows, viz.: "A machine for converting energy in the form of mechanical power...in the form of electric currents, or vice versa, by the operation of setting conductors (usually in :he form of coils of copper wire) to rotate in a magnetic...
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Laird & Lee's Vest-pocket Practical Compend of Electricity: Thorough ...

James A. Beaton - Electric power - 1901 - 302 pages
...AND ELECTRIC MOTORS A "dynamo electric machine," in the words of Professor Thompson, " is a machine for converting energy in the form of mechanical power...in the form of electric currents, or vice versa, by the operation of setting conductors (usual ly in the form of coils of copper wire) It rotate in a magnetic...
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