Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An armature in which the coils of wire are wound round a ring. The Gramme armature is the best-known type of this form.
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It should suffice to state that the ring-armature Gramme dynamo generator was introduced in 1870; it mostly ran on steam power, which goes to show that truth is stranger than fiction.
Archive 2006-02-01 Holly 2006
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It should suffice to state that the ring-armature Gramme dynamo generator was introduced in 1870; it mostly ran on steam power, which goes to show that truth is stranger than fiction.
for the curious Holly 2006
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