Tests with Solid Brushes on the Canberra Homopolar Generator

MARSHALL, R. A.

[s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
Published 1964
ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Medicine
Natural Sciences in General
Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] The homopolar generator was designed to produce a roughly sinusoidal current pulse lasting for nearly 2 sec with a peak of 1-6 million amp. In the initial tests1, this current was drawn from the rotors by means of sheet jets of sodium-potassium alloy. The brushes have been designed for the same ...
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