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  2. Electric motor - Wikipedia

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    An industrial electric motor . An electric motor is a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy.Most electric motors operate through the interaction between the motor's magnetic field and electric current in a wire winding to generate force in the form of torque applied on the motor's shaft.

  3. Electromechanics - Wikipedia

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    Electrical engineering in this context also encompasses electronics engineering. Electromechanical devices are ones which have both electrical and mechanical processes. Strictly speaking, a manually operated switch is an electromechanical component due to the mechanical movement causing an electrical output.

  4. Machine - Wikipedia

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    A number of machine elements provide important structural functions such as the frame, bearings, splines, spring and seals. The recognition that the frame of a mechanism is an important machine element changed the name three-bar linkage into four-bar linkage. Frames are generally assembled from truss or beam elements.

  5. Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering - Wikipedia

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    The electric motor brings on the first juke box with cylinders – even before flat disk records were widely available. Thomas Edison discovers thermionic emission. This effect forms the basis for the vacuum tube and the cathode ray tube. approximately 1893: The selenium phototube invention allows the conversion of brightness values into electrical

  6. Electric machine - Wikipedia

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    In electrical engineering, electric machine is a general term for machines using electromagnetic forces, such as electric motors, electric generators, and others. They are electromechanical energy converters: an electric motor converts electricity to mechanical power while an electric generator converts mechanical power to electricity.

  7. Category:Electric motors - Wikipedia

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    Electric motors convert electricity into mechanical motion. Subcategories. This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. A. AC motors (1 C, 6 P) C ...

  8. Timeline of the electric motor - Wikipedia

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    Hungarian, physicist and unsung father of the dynamo and electric motor; invented the first commutated rotary electromechanical machine with electromagnets. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] He invented the commutator . In 1828, Jedlik demonstrated the first device to contain the three main components of practical DC motors: the stator , rotor and commutator.

  9. Excitation (magnetic) - Wikipedia

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    An electric generator or electric motor consists of a rotor spinning in a magnetic field. The magnetic field may be produced by permanent magnets or by field coils . In the case of a machine with field coils, a current must flow in the coils to generate ( excite ) the field, otherwise no power is transferred to or from the rotor.