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  2. LincVolt - Wikipedia

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    150 kW (200 hp) electric motor/generator units [1] Capstone Microturbine 30 kilowatts (40 hp) range extender/internal combustion engine biodiesel [2] Transmission: none: Range: Over 500 miles (800 km) total electricity/gasoline range according to lincvolt: Dimensions; Wheelbase: 131.0 in (3,327 mm) Length: 1959: 227.1 in (5,768 mm) Width

  3. Great Northern Y-1 - Wikipedia

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    The 3,000 horsepower (2.2 MW) locomotives were built at Schenectady, New York, with car bodies manufactured by American Locomotive Company and electrical components supplied by General Electric. They used motor-generator sets to rectify the alternating current line voltage into direct current for their traction motors. #5011 after rebuilding

  4. Motor–generator - Wikipedia

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    These are motor/generators rather than motorgenerators, single units which can act as either a motor or a generator. They make the cars more fuel-efficient by harvesting energy from regenerative braking and from the turbocharger, and can also be used to provide up to 160 BHP extra to the wheels to aid acceleration and overtaking, or to spin ...

  5. Electro-Dynamic Company - Wikipedia

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    An important early customer for electric boat motors was the Electric Launch Company, also known as Elco. Following an 1892 bankruptcy, financier Isaac Rice bailed out Electro-Dynamic and became a co-owner. Griscom died in a hunting accident in 1897.

  6. Amplidyne - Wikipedia

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    It consists of an electric motor driving a DC generator. The signal to be amplified is applied to the generator's field winding , and its output voltage is an amplified copy of the field current . The amplidyne was used in industry in high power servo and control systems, to amplify low power control signals to control powerful electric motors ...

  7. Allis-Chalmers - Wikipedia

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    Allis-Chalmers was a U.S. manufacturer of machinery for various industries.Its business lines included agricultural equipment, construction equipment, power generation and power transmission equipment, and machinery for use in industrial settings such as factories, flour mills, sawmills, textile mills, steel mills, refineries, mines, and ore mills.

  8. Brush HMA - Wikipedia

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    The Brush HMA manufacturing plant is located adjacent to the river, north of Ridderkerk, near Rotterdam in the Netherlands.. The Brush HMA plant at Ridderkerk, not to be confused with the other Holec Ridderkerk enterprise that became part of France's Alstom, has manufactured many different types of electrical machines and associated equipment over the last one hundred twenty years.

  9. 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.