Gramme2
(græm)
The name of the Belgian electrician Zénobe Théophile Gramme (1826–1901), used attrib. to designate a form of dynamo armature introduced by him in 1870 (Gramme ring, armature, winding, etc.).
| 1884 F. Krohn tr. Glaser de Cew's Magn. & Dyn.-Electr. Mach. 255 The inductive actions in the coils of a Gramme ring. Ibid., The ring of the Gramme machine. 1893 Hawkins & Wallis Dynamo 115 The first or ‘Ring’ method..is also frequently called the ‘Gramme’ winding. Ibid. 193 In the Gramme-wound ring armature the number of loops and the number of inductors are identical. |