ArK 14 im TN PREFACE. REAT difficulty has always been experienced in recommending a -text-book to the second and third year students of electrical engineering at the Central Technical College. There appeared to be nothing to bridge the gap between the elementary text-books and the specialised works on various branches of electrical engineering. I have no doubt that the same difficulty has been experienced by all who have lectured to the more advanced students in our Universities and Technical Colleges. It was while contemplating the preparation of a suitable text-book that my attention was drawn toD rT homalen swork, written with the same object and covering much the same ground as I had contemplated. The present work is a translation of the second edition of this Kurze. Lehrbuch derE lektrotechnik but includes additional matter which it is intended to introduce into the third German edition now in preparation. Generally speaking, it is a close translation of the original, but I have not hesitated to use other methods where they appeared preferable. This applies especially to Section 101, which differs entirely firom the corresponding Section in the German edition. AS ection has been added to Chapter XX, dealing with the Cascade Converter. The book is concerned almost exclusively with principles and does not enter into details of the practical construction of apparatus and machines. It is not intended to take the place of the standard works on the design of dynamo machinery, both direct and alternating, but rather to lay a thorough foundation which shall make the study of such works more profitable.
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