Excerpt from Design of Electrical Machinery, Vol. 3: A Treatise for the Use, Primarily, of Students in Electrical Engineering Courses The purpose of this volume is to treat alternating-current generators, synchronous motors, and rotary converters. It contains What the author believes Will be of most service to the student Who is just entering upon his experience as a designer. A more comprehensive study of the principles and phenomena underlying the calculations should be made by means of lectures, recitations, through the medium of references, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.