Keywords: GrammeMachine.jpg The Gramme machine or Gramme dynamo an electrical generator designed by Belgian inventor Zénobe Gramme in 1871 It was the first machine to be used industrially to generate power His innovation was to use many armature windings wound on a doughnut shaped armature and switched with a many segmented commutator to smooth the output waveform producing nearly constant DC power This shows a hand cranked model from the 1870s designed for use in laboratories it's output was equivalent to eight ordinary Bunsen elements batteries It used laminated permanent magnets invented by Jamin Máquina de Gramme For more information see http //books google com/books id c64OAAAAYAAJ pg PA86 Hippolyte Fontaine 1878 Electric Lighting A Practical Treatise translated from French by Paget Higgs E F N Spon London UK p 86 Own 2007-04-12 Tamorlan thumb left Magnetos Zénobe Gramme Files by User Tamorlan |