by means of a 1980s Maytag washing machine motor. Many of us will be used to old-style induction motors, in which two windings were fed out of phase via a large capacitor. This one doesn’t have ...

An inventor traces the evolution of a single engineering idea, from Michael Faraday’s first motors to levitating trains ...

The 3/4hp induction motor on my Rockwell mill is OK, but it has a bent shaft and mismatched step pulley. I'm upgrading the ...

Explore how Tesla took Nikola Tesla’s century-old AC induction motor design and transformed it into a high-tech marvel for ...

The EMALS is an electromagnetic catapult that relies upon a linear induction motor, rather than a traditional steam piston, to launch aircraft. The Ford-class aircraft carriers are the most expensive ...