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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      March 2012
      May 2011
      ISBN:
      9780511795404
      9781108026871
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511795404
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.86kg, 690 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Science and Technology, Engineering, Electromagnetics, History, Engineering: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
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    Subjects:
    History of Science and Technology, Engineering, Electromagnetics, History, Engineering: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
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    Silvanus P. Thompson (1851–1916) was a physicist and electrical engineer. A professor by the age of 27, he taught at University College, Bristol, and the City and Guilds Finsbury Technical College in London, and was a leading expert on the newly emerging subject of electrical lighting. This work, first published in 1884, is considered a classic in the field. In this third edition (1888), Thompson explains that he has updated much of the work, and made an important amendment in Chapter XIV about the introduction of magnetic circuits into theoretical arguments about energy production. The book begins with an explanation of how dynamos turn mechanical power into electricity, and moves on to discuss some historical background and theoretical aspects before giving detailed descriptions and illustrations of the many types of dynamo. It is an important source document for the field of electrical engineering at the end of the nineteenth century.

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