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Excerpt from Practical Electrical Engineering, Direct Currents: A Manual for Use in Industrial and Evening Schools and for Home Study The next lessons are devoted to direct-current measurements and to primary and secondary cells, and these are followed by lessons on direct-current generators and motors. Fundamental laws are always referred to, so that the student increases his knowledge step-by-step and in a logical manner. The appendix contains a complete laboratory course of twenty experiments which will be found serviceable in supplementing the text. The topical form of the text and the use of main headings and sub-headings serve to emphasize the important points of the subject. The outlines preceding each lesson will prove of value to the instructor in preparing his lectures, and to the student in summarizing and in reviewing his text assignments. The electrician who has gained his knowledge of things electrical by actual practice can obtain from this book a real understanding of the basic principles of electrical engineering. Having mastered the text, he will know "why" as well as "how." There are a number of men engaged in the electrical industry, many in important executive and non-technical positions, who have had neither the time nor the opportunity to obtain even a general knowledge of electrical science. Such men will find in this book exactly what they have been looking for - the facts presented in simplified but not childish form and in a manner which can be grasped by those who do not possess either a college education or technical training. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.