Excerpt from Shop and Road Testing of Dynamos and Motors: A Practical Manual
The following chapters are the outcome of a need felt by the authors, during their experience on the testing floor and road, for a manual that would cover this field of work in such a way as to be a help alike to the student fresh from the theoretical side of the subject but unacquainted with shop details, and to the so-called practical man, who is largely self-taught, as to the theory of the machines he handles.
On the purely theoretical side such works as those of S. P. Thompson and D. C. Jackson leave little to be desired, while from the purely practical side a multitude of so-called practical books flood the market; but works that are at once correct from the standpoint of the theorist, and yet valuable to the strictly practical man, have not been easy to find. This need is felt by the college graduate as he steps from the plane of the laboratory and lecture room to the hard-pan of the commercial testing floor. It is also felt by a multitude of station managers and engineers who find the hit-and-miss methods of testing far from satisfactory.
The present work has a two-fold object: I.
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