Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing force by means of electricity: as, a dynamo-electric machine; also, produced by electric force.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power.
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Examples
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The dynamo-electric machine, according to the patent purchased by the Weldon Institute, was nearly ready.
Robur the Conqueror 2003
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A dynamo-electric apparatus, in which a new pile was employed the composition of which was still a mystery, had been bought from its inventor, a Boston chemist up to then unknown.
Robur the Conqueror 2003
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The modern dynamo-electric machine or generator may be regarded as
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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This horizontal steam engine, recently constructed by Mr. E.D. Farcot for actuating a Cance dynamo-electric machine, consists of a cast iron bed frame, A, upon which are mounted all the parts.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Various
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But we prefer to reserve this point until a general notion of the action of dynamo-electric machines has been given.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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But of the thousands who have heard that a steam engine can thus provide us with electric currents, how many are there who comprehend the action of the generator or dynamo-electric machine?
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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At that time the advantages accruing through a system of electrical storage could be fully appreciated, since electrical energy was already being produced by mechanical means through the medium of dynamo-electric machines.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 Various
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There are at present four dynamo-electric machines, but sufficient room was provided for four more.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 Various
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This method of coupling up is of very great historical interest, for it is the first instance on record of the magnet coils and armature of a machine being included in one circuit, giving to it the principle of construction of a dynamo-electric machine, and antedating in publication, by two years, the interesting machines of Siemens,
Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 Various
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The old-fashioned spark-producing "electrical machine" of our youthful days, in which a glass cylinder or disk was rotated by a handle while a rubber of silk pressed against it, has nothing in common with the dynamo-electric generator, except that in both something turns upon an axis as a grindstone or the barrel of
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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