Electrical Engineering: An Elementary Text-Book (Classic Reprint)

This book had its origin in a number of lectures which I delivered two yean ago to the workmen and the staff of a large electrical manufacturing finn. The circle of readers for which this book is intended is, in the first place, the same as that to which my audience belonged. It should give to workmen of electrical engineering works the knowledge of the operation of machines and apparatus with which they are concerned. I have endeavoured to use such language that people who have only a general school education should be able to understand. For this reason several matters have been dealt with very completely which, to the mathematicaU yeducated man, could have been explained in a few lines such as, for instance. Ohm sL aw and resistance calculations. I have in these cases endeavouied to explain the matter first without the help of mathematics, and then have finally, as a keystone after having worked some examples stated the formulsB pI nthe part relating to the output of a three-phase current system, in a similar way, there are calculations and formulae, since it is necessary for the student to be acquainted with these. Generally, however, calculations and formulae are avoided, as in the case of the whole chapter about dynamos. The book will not enable the reader to calculate the parts and windings of djmamos, and he should not even think that he is able to do so. For the elementary student, the wireman, for the engineer as well as for the general public who desire to know something about electrical engineering, it is quite sufficient if they understand the working of djmamos, their faults, and the reason and the cure of the latter. The book covers a wide area.
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