Wire Wound

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List Of Nikola Tesla Patents - American - Patents #1–#50
... Improvements in electromagnetic motors and their mode or methods of their operations Motor is wound with coils forming independent circuits on the armature Armature is mounted to rotate between two different poles ... and connect them with a motor of corresponding coils or sets of coils By means of two line wires, the motor and generator in like fashion Related to US 390413 (for means of starting) Will ... and the converse in the other (which has few turns of finer wire or wire that has higher resistance) magnetic quantities of the poles should be approximately equal Self-induction cores are much longer ...
Riostat - Rheostat
... for higher power (more than about 1 watt), it may be built with a resistance wire wound around a semicircular insulator, with the wiper sliding from ... Sometimes a rheostat is made from resistance wire wound on a heat-resisting cylinder, with the slider made from a number of metal fingers that grip lightly onto a small portion of the ... The "fingers" can be moved along the coil of resistance wire by a sliding knob thus changing the "tapping" point ...

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