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YOUR article of the 1st inst. on the International Electrical Exhibition (p. 522), says: “In those days (before 1879) two wrong notions misled people—the one, that the maximum efficiency of a perfect electromotor could be only 50 per cent.; the other, quoting the remarks of Sir W. Siemens, ‘in order to get the best effect out of a dynamo-electric machine, there should be an external resistance not exceeding the resistance of the wire in the machine.’”
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MURPHY, J. Electric Transmission of Power. Nature 44, 590 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044590b0
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