Dynamos and Transformers

Abstract

THE author of this work is well known as a successful designer of dynamos and transformers. In his preface he states his object to be “to place before the reader an exposition of the general principles underlying the construction of dynamo-electric apparatus, and to do this without the use of high mathematics and complicated methods of investigation.” He further says, on p. 26: “In attempting to establish a working theory of dynamo-electric machinery, or rather in setting forth the rules and formulæ now used by the designers of such machines, we shall therefore not follow the lead of the pioneers in science so much as that of their more popular expounders, and that of practical experience. The treatment will thus necessarily lack that mathematical elegance of which the scholastic mind is so fond, but, on the other hand, it will be more easily grasped and adopted by the practical engineer who works as much by the aid of his mechanical instinct as by that of science.”

Dynamos, Alternators, and Transformers.

By Gisbert Kapp (London: Biggs and Co.)