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Excerpt from The Design of Alternating Current Machinery This book was written by the late Mr. James R. Barr, and was intended to be a companion volume to his book on Direct Current Electrical Engineering. Owing to the unfortunate death Of the author, before the book was revised for publication, 1 undertook the task Of revision and correction Of the proofs. In doing so I have altered matter only where the author's meaning was not perfectly clear and where mistakes arose. References have been given where possible, and symbols arranged so that as far as possible each quantity shall have a separate one. 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.