Cyclopedia of applied electricity
Subtitle: a general reference work on direct-current generators and motors, storage batteries, electrochemistry, welding, electric wiring, meters, electric lighting, elctric railways, power stations, switchboards, power transmission, alternating-current machinery, telegraphy, etc
By: prepared by a corps of electrical experts, engineers, and designers of the highest professional standing; illustrated with over two thousand engravings
Publisher: American technical society
Published: 1915
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Notes: "A compilation of many of the most valuable instruction books of the American school of correspondence."--Forword.
Table of contents: title: I. Elements of electricity. The electric current. Underwriters' requirements. Electrical measurements; title: II. Principles of d.c. dynamos. Calculation of d.c. dynamos. Design of d.c. dynamos. Types of generators and motors.; title: III. Direct current-motors. Motor-driven industrial machinery. Management of dynamo-electric machinery. Electric lighting. Isolated lighting plants.; title: IV. Alternating-current machinery, pt. I-IV.; title: V. Power transmission. Electric railways. Trackless trolley traction. Self-propelled railway cars.; title: VI. Power stations. Switchboards. Storage batteries. Applied electrochemistry.; title: VII. Modern land and submarine telegraphy. Wireless telegraphy and telephony. Electric elevators. Electric heating. Welding. Glossary. Bibliography. General index.