Dynamos et Moteurs Électriques : Cours d'Électrotechnique Professé à l'Institut Electromécanique de l'Université de Louvain. Tome 1, Dynamos (Electric Generators)
Paris / Uystpruyst: Dunod / Louvain, 1924. Hardcover. Marbled paper over boards with quarter cloth spine, 8vo (9-3/8 inches [23.8 cm] tall), pp. 506, illustrated with 627 charts, tables and line drawings, index. Volume covers worn with soil and two abrasions, text with occasional light soil and a few pages noted with marginalia, original bound-in wraps are soiled and toned with creases, gutters are cracked where wraps meet endpapers with the front wrap off, but present and the rest of text still very solidly bound, "Acheve d'Imprimer sur les Presses de i'Imprimerie des Trois Rois a Louvain le 15 Decembre 1923" printed on colophon inside rear wrap. Volume 1 only. Good. Item #2485
An uncommon work, held by just 4 institutions internationally including MIT in Cambridge. "Dynamos were the first electrical generators capable of delivering power for industry, and the foundation upon which many other later electric-power conversion devices were based." Wiki.
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