nicklogan wrote:
Some of you may find the comments of Charles Steinmetz, the originator of a
lot of fundamental AC theory, about the advantages and disadvantages of
electric vs. gasoline powered vehicles interesting:
http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/images/d/d4/Steinmetz-Elec_Auto.pdf
I can't cut and paste here as it's a scanned pdf of his original type
written document.
In the same paper he goes into using a battery to excite the windings of a
series/shunt motor to add regenerative braking and get a better power curve.
His life story is pretty interesting also:
http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/images/f/f9/Steinmetz_-_the_story_of_steinmetz.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz
He wrote early texts for electrical engineering principles and started the
first EE college curriculum in the US at Union College in upstate NY but is
not generally as well known as his contemporaries: Edison, Tesla, and
Einstein.
Very nice! Thanks for posting this. It's amazing how little has changed
in nearly 100 years.
Steinmetz is a hero of mine. He was not a big showman like Edison etc,
but was truly a genius, and a very good person as well. One comment of
his that I like:
"An engineer can tell you if it will work before you build it. After
it's built, any damned fool can tell."
--
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein
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Lee Hart's EV projects are at http://www.sunrise-ev.com/LeesEVs.htm
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