Definition of "dynamo-electric" []

• Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power. (adjective)

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• "A dynamo-electric apparatus, in which a new pile was employed the composition of which was still a mystery, had been bought from its inventor, a Boston chemist up to then unknown."
• "The dynamo-electric machine, according to the patent purchased by the Weldon Institute, was nearly ready."
• "This method of coupling up is of very great historical interest, for it is the first instance on record of the magnet coils and armature of a machine being included in one circuit, giving to it the principle of construction of a dynamo-electric machine, and antedating in publication, by two years, the interesting machines of Siemens,"