Online Catalogue last updated 8th of March 2011
Written by Paul N. Hasluck.
Another gem from Hasluck's "Work" series from a hundred years ago.
Electricity was a cutting edge technology, but motors and generators (then called dynamos) were expensive. Here are a collection of articles from "Work" magazine of which Hasluck was editor describing how to build your own equipment.
Chapters include: the Siemens dynamo, the Gramme dynamo, the Manchester dynamo, the Simplex dynamo, calculating the size and amount of wire for small dunamos, ailments of small dynamo-electric machines, small electric motors without castings, how to determine the direction of rotation of a motor, how to make a shuttle-armature motor, fiftywatt undertype dynamo, and a four-hundred-and-forty-watt Manchester type dynamo.
Some of the motors and dynamos are small table-top machines which would make great experimental projects, You might be able to scale them up to generate significant power.
Lots of illustrations and details. Lots of information that can be adapted.
Code No. 009583, 159 pages, $19.00