INDEX 



Adams, C. A., resume of paper of, 225 

 Advantages and disadvantages of 



synchronous motors, 140 

 Air-gap, length of, 164 



local corrections of, 251 

 Algebraical relations deduced from the 



diagram, 37 



Alternating current, starting by, 106 

 -field motors, xvi 



synchronous motors, 145 

 Alternators, construction of, and 

 application of calculation of 

 reactances, 267 

 Mordey, 38, 47, 53 

 ordinary, polyphase form of, 9 

 single-phase, case of, 264 

 testing according to the theory of 



two reactions, 270 



Ampere-turns in the case of unsatu- 

 rated armature, diagram of, 

 241 



Armature, case of a saturated, 248 

 reaction, 92 

 self-inductance of, 242 

 reactions, calculation of, 236 

 reduction to the single-direct 



reaction, 174 



Annual operating cost, saving in, 75 

 Arnold, E., 236 



B 



Bedell and Ryan, 103 



method of determining phase- 

 angle, 139 

 Behn-Eschenburg short-circuit curves, 



132 



Bipolar diagrams, 33 

 principle of, 32 



Blakesley's method of representing 



operative conditions, 20 

 Blondel, Prof. Andr6, 236 



Calculation of constants, 252 



of reactions, 252 

 Case of symmetrical polyphase motors, 



19 



Cassel, power transmission, 52 

 Circuit, or line, and compensation, 65 

 Classification of single-phase and 



polyphase motors, xvi 

 Comparison between synchronous and 



induction-motors, 90 

 of outputs, 62 

 Compensation, economics of, 72 



with respect to the generators, 86 



to the line or circuit, 65 

 Complex variables, equation of the 

 synchronous motor by the 

 method of, 23 

 Compound-excitation, 196 

 Constant field motors, xvi 



potential, supply system, 100 



V-curves for, 200 

 Constants, calculations of, 252 

 Construction, 1-3 



Converter operation, representation 



of with constant potential at 



primary terminals and 



brushes, 180 



rotary, characteristic features of, 



194 



lag-characteristics of, 203 

 special applications of, 223 

 Cornu, on oscillations, 126 

 Corrected diagram, first application of, 

 95 



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