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adapter transformer
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adjustable transformer
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air transformer
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air-blast transformer
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air-cooled transformer
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air-core transformer
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air-natural transformer
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amorphous-core transformer
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arc-welding transformer
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audio-frequency transformer
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autocompounded current transformer
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autocompounded voltage transformer
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autoconnected transformer
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auxiliary transformer
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balanced-to-unbalanced transformer
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balance-to-unbalanced transformer
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balanced-to-unbalance transformer
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balance-to-unbalance transformer
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balanced transformer
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balancing transformer
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ballast transformer
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banked distribution transformers
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bar-type transformer
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bell transformer
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booster transformer
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bridge transformer
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busbar current transformer
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capacitive voltage transformer
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cascade transformer
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cast resin transformer
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center-tapped transformer
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closed core transformer
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code transformer
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combined voltage and current transformer
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compensated current transformer
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compensated voltage transformer
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compound-filled instrument transformer
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constant-current transformer
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constant-potential transformer
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control circuit transformer
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control transformer
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converter transformer
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coreless transformer
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core-type transformer
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coupling transformer
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current transformer
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decoupling transformer
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differential transformer
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diode-split line-output transformer
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direct-current transformer
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distribution transformer
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double-stub transformer
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double-tuned transformer
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double-winding transformer
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driving transformer
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dry-type transformer
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dry transformer
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dry-type forced-air-cooled transformer
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dry-type self-cooled transformer
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E transformer
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earthed transformer
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earthing transformer
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effective grounded transformer
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EHV power transformer
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excitation transformer
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extra-high-voltage power transformer
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feed transformer
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feeder transformer
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feeding transformer
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filter transformer
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five-legged transformer
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flash transformer
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flyback transformer
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forced-air-cooled transformer
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forced-oil transformer
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frame-output transformer
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furnace transformer
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gas-filled transformer
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gas-insulated transformer
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general transformer
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general-purpose transformer
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grounded transformer
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grounding transformer
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high-potential transformer
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high-power transformer
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high-voltage transformer
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horizontal-output transformer
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house transformer
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hydropneumatic transformer
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ideal transformer
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image-output transformer
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impedance transformer
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impedance-matching transformer
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impulse current transformer
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indoor transformer
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induction voltage transformer
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injector transformer
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input transformer
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instrument transformer
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insulated-core transformer
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insulating transformer
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integral current transformer
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interphase transformer
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intervening current transformer
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iron-clad transformer
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iron-core transformer
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isolating transformer
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lightning-proof transformer
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line regulating transformer
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line transformer
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linear hydraulic transformer
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line-output transformer
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liquid-filled transformer
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loading transformer
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low-power transformer
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low-voltage transformer
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mains transformer
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manhole transformer
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matching transformer
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measuring transformer
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micromodular transformer
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mode transformer
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molded transformer
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multiratio current transformer
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multiratio voltage transformer
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multiwinding transformer
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natural-draft transformer
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network transformer
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nonmagnetic current transformer
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nonresonating transformer
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oil-cooled transformer
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oil transformer
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oil-filled instrument transformer
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oil-immersed forced-air-cooled transformer
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oil-immersed forced-oil-cooled transformer
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oil-immersed self-cooled transformer
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oil-immersed transformer
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oil-immersed water-cooled transformer
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one-coil transformer
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one-to-one transformer
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on-load tap-changing transformer
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open-core transformer
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outdoor transformer
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output transformer
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pad-mounted transformer
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peaking transformer
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peak transformer
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phase-shifting transformer
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pole-type transformer
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polyphase transformer
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potential transformer
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power transformer
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protection current transformer
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protection voltage transformer
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protective transformer
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pulse transformer
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pulse-forming transformer
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radio-frequency transformer
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reactance-earthed transformer
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reactor transformer
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rectifier transformer
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reducing transformer
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regulating transformer
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relay transformer
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resistance-earthed transformer
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resonance transformer
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rotary hydraulic transformer
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rotary transformer
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rotatabletransformer
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saturable current transformer
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saturable transformer
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saturating current transformer
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sealed transformer
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self-cooled transformer
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self-protected transformer
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series regulating transformer
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series transformer
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SF6-filled transformer
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shell-core transformer
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shell-form
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shell-type transformer
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shunt transformer
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signal transformer
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single-phase transformer
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single-turn current transformer
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small-power transformer
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solidly earthed transformer
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spare transformer
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standard current transformer
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standard instrument transformer
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standard potential transformer
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standby transformer
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starting transformer
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step-down transformer
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step-up transformer
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subdivided transformer
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submersible transformer
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substation transformer
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supply transformer
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tank transformer
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tap-changing transformer
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tap-changing-under-load transformer
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tapped transformer
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teaser transformer
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testing transformer
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test transformer
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thermal transformer
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three-circuit transformer
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three-legged transformer
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three-leg transformer
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three-phase transformer
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three-winding transformer
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through-type current transformer
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tool transformer
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toroidal-coretransformer
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toroidaltransformer
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track-circuit transformer
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track transformer
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traction-feeding transformer
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triple-wound transformer
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tuned transformer
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two-winding transformer
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unbalanced-to-balanced transformer
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unbalance-to-balanced transformer
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unbalanced-to-balance transformer
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unbalance-to-balance transformer
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unearthed transformer
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variable-ratio transformer
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vertical-output transformer
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voltage measuring transformer
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voltage transformer
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water-cooled transformer
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welding transformer
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window-type current transformer
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zero-phase sequence current transformer -
4 circuit
1) сеть
2) кругооборот
3) циркуляционный
4) циркуляционный контур
5) <tech.> цепь
6) схема
7) поток
8) неупорядоченный цикл
9) оборудование
10) обход
11) схемный
12) выключатель
– absorption circuit
– alarm circuit
– alternating-current circuit
– analog circuit
– analogous circuit
– AND-to OR circuit
– AND-to-AND circuit
– antenna circuit
– anti-coincidence circuit
– anticoincidence circuit
– antihunt circuit
– arm circuit
– arm of circuit
– astable circuit
– balanced circuit
– balancing of a circuit
– band-elimination circuit
– be in traffic circuit
– bias circuit
– bipartite circuit
– blanking circuit
– blocking circuit
– boosted circuit
– bootstrap circuit
– braking circuit
– breadboard circuit
– break in circuit
– bridge circuit
– built-up circuit
– carry circuit
– cascode circuit
– cathode-coupled circuit
– checking circuit
– circuit algebra
– circuit analysis
– circuit breaker
– circuit capacitance
– circuit card
– circuit closer
– circuit closure
– circuit continuity
– circuit design
– circuit diagram
– circuit element
– circuit grade
– circuit matrix
– circuit noise
– circuit order
– circuit switching
– circuit technology
– circuit tester
– circuit theory
– circuit time
– circuit wiring
– clipper-limiter circuit
– closed circuit
– coding circuit
– coincidence circuit
– communication circuit
– comparison circuit
– compensating circuit
– complete circuit
– composite circuit
– control circuit
– conveyer circuit
– cord circuit
– corrector circuit
– counting circuit
– coupled circuit
– cryotron circuit
– current circuit
– cut in circuit
– de-emphasis circuit
– de-energize circuit
– dead circuit
– decoding circuit
– deemphasis circuit
– deenergizing circuit
– delay circuit
– derivation circuit
– derived circuit
– differentiating circuit
– digital circuit
– direct-current circuit
– disabling circuit
– discharge circuit
– distributed-parameter circuit
– divide-by-two circuit
– dividing circuit
– doubling circuit
– draw up circuit
– drive circuit
– dual circuit
– earth-return circuit
– electronic circuit
– enabling circuit
– energizing circuit
– engineer's circuit
– equalize circuit
– equivalent circuit
– excitation circuit
– exciting circuit
– exclusive OR circuit
– extend circuit
– feedback circuit
– ferroresonance circuit
– filament circuit
– finite circuit
– forward circuit
– gang circuit
– gate circuit
– ground circuit
– grounded-cathode circuit
– grounded-emitter circuit
– grounded-grid circuit
– guard circuit
– halving circuit
– high-frequency circuit
– high-speed circuit
– high-tension circuit
– hold a circuit
– hold circuit
– hybrid circuit
– idler circuit
– ignition circuit
– impulse circuit
– inclusive OR circuit
– incomplete circuit
– information circuit
– inhibit circuit
– injection circuit
– inland circuit
– inoperative circuit
– input circuit
– insulate circuit
– integrated circuit
– integrating circuit
– interruption of circuit
– interstage circuit
– inverter circuit
– isolating circuit
– isolation circuit
– keying circuit
– ladder circuit
– level circuit
– line circuit
– linear circuit
– linearity circuit
– load circuit
– local circuit
– logic circuit
– made circuit
– magnetic circuit
– main circuit
– marking circuit
– matrix circuit
– measuring circuit
– memory circuit
– metering circuit
– micrologic circuit
– microminiature circuit
– microprinted circuit
– microvave circuit
– mixing circuit
– mnemonic circuit
– modular circuit
– modulator circuit
– monitoring circuit
– monolithic circuit
– multichip circuit
– multifunction circuit
– multiple circuit
– multiplex circuit
– multiply-by-two circuit
– multiplying circuit
– multistable circuit
– narrow-gate circuit
– network circuit
– non-coincidence circuit
– nonlinear circuit
– NOR logic circuit
– NOT AND circuit
– not circuit
– NOT OR circuit
– NOT-AND circuit
– obtain circuit
– off-centering circuit
– open circuit
– open-wire circuit
– opposition circuit
– OR circuit
– OR-to-AND circuit
– OR-to-OR circuit
– oscillatory circuit
– output circuit
– parallel circuit
– parasitic circuit
– passive circuit
– period-computing circuit
– phantom circuit
– physical circuit
– planar circuit
– plank-magnetic circuit
– plated circuit
– polyphase circuit
– potted circuit
– power circuit
– primary circuit
– principle circuit
– printed circuit
– protect circuit
– protection circuit
– pulmonary circuit
– pulse-actuated circuit
– pulse-generating circuit
– pump circuit
– push-pull circuit
– radiotelephone circuit
– read circuit
– reciprocal circuit
– regenerative circuit
– reheat circuit
– rejecter circuit
– relaxation circuit
– reset circuit
– resistive circuit
– resonance circuit
– resonant circuit
– response of circuit
– return circuit
– ring-bus circuit
– ring-down circuit
– ringdown circuit
– safety circuit
– scale-of-five circuit
– scale-of-ten circuit
– scale-of-two circuit
– scaling circuit
– schematic circuit
– secondary circuit
– see-saw circuit
– seize a circuit
– self-exciting circuit
– semibutterfly circuit
– separation circuit
– sequence circuit
– sequential circuit
– series circuit
– shift circuit
– short circuit
– side circuit
– simplexed circuit
– single-channel circuit
– single-core circuit
– single-ended circuit
– single-wire circuit
– sling circuit
– software circuit
– solid-state circuit
– squaring circuit
– squelch circuit
– stabilizing circuit
– staggered circuit
– starting circuit
– steam-generating circuit
– stick circuit
– storage circuit
– subtraction circuit
– sweep circuit
– switch circuit
– switching circuit
– symmetrical circuit
– sync circuit
– synchronizing circuit
– systemic circuit
– talking circuit
– tank circuit
– tapped circuit
– telephone circuit
– testing circuit
– thick-film circuit
– thin-film circuit
– three-phase circuit
– through circuit
– timer circuit
– totem-pole-type circuit
– track circuit
– transfer circuit
– transistor circuit
– trap circuit
– voltage-doubling circuit
– water-slurry circuit
– water-steam circuit
– welding circuit
– write circuit
alignment of tuned circuit — < radio> подстройка контура
analog integrated circuit — аналоговая микросхема, аналоговая интегральная микросхема
aperiodic oscillatory circuit — колебательный апериодический
automatic circuit breaker — автомат защиты сети, выключатель автоматический
bridge-type balancing circuit — <electr.> схема мостовая компенсационная
deposited integrated circuit — осажденная интегральная схема
digital integrated circuit — цифровая микросхема, цифровая ИМС
directly-coupled transistor circuit — схема с непосредственной связью на полупроводниковых триодах
double flip-flop circuit — <comput.> схема двухперекидная
double-rail track circuit — < railways> цепь рельсовая двухниточная
ferroresonant computing circuit — феррорезонансная вычислительная схема
film integrated circuit — пленочная микросхема, пленочная интегральная микросхема
gas-blast circuit breaker — выключатель с газовым дутьем, выключатель автокомпрессионный элегазовый
half-wave track circuit — импульсная рельсовая цепь < railways>
hybrid integrated circuit — гибридная микросхема, гибридная интегральная микросхема
integrated circuit amplifier — усилитель на интегральных схемах
large-scale integration circuit — большая интегральная микросхема
meter-reading access circuit — схема вывода показаний измерительного прибора
microprocessor integrated circuit — микропроцессорная интегральная микросхема
microwave integrated circuit — интегральная схема СВЧ диапазона, сверхвысокочастотная ИМС
monolithic integrated circuit — полупроводниковая микросхема
multitank oil circuit breaker — камерный масляный выключатель
semiconducnor integrated circuit — полупроводниковая интегральная микросхема
series track circuit — < railways> цепь рельсовая конденсаторная
short circuit current — <electr.> ток короткого замыкания
single-path magnetic circuit — неразветвленный магнитопровод
single-rail track circuit — однониточная рельсовая цепь, < railways> цепь рельсовая однониточная
single-tank oil circuit breaker — баковый масляный выключатель
turn-to-turn short circuit — междувитковое короткое замыкание
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6 Siemens, Dr Ernst Werner von
[br]b. 13 December 1816 Lenthe, near Hanover, Germanyd. 6 December 1892 Berlin, Germany[br]German pioneer of the dynamo, builder of the first electric railway.[br]Werner von Siemens was the eldest of a large family and after the early death of his parents took his place at its head. He served in the Prussian artillery, being commissioned in 1839, after which he devoted himself to the study of chemistry and physics. In 1847 Siemens and J.G. Halske formed a company, Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens und Halske, to manufacture a dial telegraph which they had developed from an earlier instrument produced by Charles Wheatstone. In 1848 Siemens obtained his discharge from the army and he and Halske constructed the first long-distance telegraph line on the European continent, between Berlin and Frankfurt am Main.Werner von Siemens's younger brother, William Siemens, had settled in Britain in 1844 and was appointed agent for the Siemens \& Halske company in 1851. Later, an English subsidiary company was formed, known from 1865 as Siemens Brothers. It specialized in manufacturing and laying submarine telegraph cables: the specialist cable-laying ship Faraday, launched for the purpose in 1874, was the prototype of later cable ships and in 1874–5 laid the first cable to run direct from the British Isles to the USA. In charge of Siemens Brothers was another brother, Carl, who had earlier established a telegraph network in Russia.In 1866 Werner von Siemens demonstrated the principle of the dynamo in Germany, but it took until 1878 to develop dynamos and electric motors to the point at which they could be produced commercially. The following year, 1879, Werner von Siemens built the first electric railway, and operated it at the Berlin Trades Exhibition. It comprised an oval line, 300 m (985 it) long, with a track gauge of 1 m (3 ft 3 1/2 in.); upon this a small locomotive hauled three small passenger coaches. The locomotive drew current at 150 volts from a third rail between the running rails, through which it was returned. In four months, more than 80,000 passengers were carried. The railway was subsequently demonstrated in Brussels, and in London, in 1881. That same year Siemens built a permanent electric tramway, 1 1/2 miles (2 1/2 km) long, on the outskirts of Berlin. In 1882 in Berlin he tried out a railless electric vehicle which drew electricity from a two-wire overhead line: this was the ancestor of the trolleybus.In the British Isles, an Act of Parliament was obtained in 1880 for the Giant's Causeway Railway in Ireland with powers to work it by "animal, mechanical or electrical power"; although Siemens Brothers were electrical engineers to the company, of which William Siemens was a director, delays in construction were to mean that the first railway in the British Isles to operate regular services by electricity was that of Magnus Volk.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsHonorary doctorate, Berlin University 1860. Ennobled by Kaiser Friedrich III 1880, after which he became known as von Siemens.Further ReadingS.von Weiher, 1972, "The Siemens brothers, pioneers of the electrical age in Europe", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 45 (describes the Siemens's careers). C.E.Lee, 1979, The birth of electric traction', Railway Magazine (May) (describes Werner Siemens's introduction of the electric railway).Transactions of the Newcomen Society (1979) 50: 82–3 (describes Siemens's and Halske's early electric telegraph instruments).Transactions of the Newcomen Society (1961) 33: 93 (describes the railless electric vehicle).PJGRBiographical history of technology > Siemens, Dr Ernst Werner von
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7 Stephenson, George
[br]b. 9 June 1781 Wylam, Northumberland, Englandd. 12 August 1848 Tapton House, Chesterfield, England[br]English engineer, "the father of railways".[br]George Stephenson was the son of the fireman of the pumping engine at Wylam colliery, and horses drew wagons of coal along the wooden rails of the Wylam wagonway past the house in which he was born and spent his earliest childhood. While still a child he worked as a cowherd, but soon moved to working at coal pits. At 17 years of age he showed sufficient mechanical talent to be placed in charge of a new pumping engine, and had already achieved a job more responsible than that of his father. Despite his position he was still illiterate, although he subsequently learned to read and write. He was largely self-educated.In 1801 he was appointed Brakesman of the winding engine at Black Callerton pit, with responsibility for lowering the miners safely to their work. Then, about two years later, he became Brakesman of a new winding engine erected by Robert Hawthorn at Willington Quay on the Tyne. Returning collier brigs discharged ballast into wagons and the engine drew the wagons up an inclined plane to the top of "Ballast Hill" for their contents to be tipped; this was one of the earliest applications of steam power to transport, other than experimentally.In 1804 Stephenson moved to West Moor pit, Killingworth, again as Brakesman. In 1811 he demonstrated his mechanical skill by successfully modifying a new and unsatisfactory atmospheric engine, a task that had defeated the efforts of others, to enable it to pump a drowned pit clear of water. The following year he was appointed Enginewright at Killingworth, in charge of the machinery in all the collieries of the "Grand Allies", the prominent coal-owning families of Wortley, Liddell and Bowes, with authorization also to work for others. He built many stationary engines and he closely examined locomotives of John Blenkinsop's type on the Kenton \& Coxlodge wagonway, as well as those of William Hedley at Wylam.It was in 1813 that Sir Thomas Liddell requested George Stephenson to build a steam locomotive for the Killingworth wagonway: Blucher made its first trial run on 25 July 1814 and was based on Blenkinsop's locomotives, although it lacked their rack-and-pinion drive. George Stephenson is credited with building the first locomotive both to run on edge rails and be driven by adhesion, an arrangement that has been the conventional one ever since. Yet Blucher was far from perfect and over the next few years, while other engineers ignored the steam locomotive, Stephenson built a succession of them, each an improvement on the last.During this period many lives were lost in coalmines from explosions of gas ignited by miners' lamps. By observation and experiment (sometimes at great personal risk) Stephenson invented a satisfactory safety lamp, working independently of the noted scientist Sir Humphry Davy who also invented such a lamp around the same time.In 1817 George Stephenson designed his first locomotive for an outside customer, the Kilmarnock \& Troon Railway, and in 1819 he laid out the Hetton Colliery Railway in County Durham, for which his brother Robert was Resident Engineer. This was the first railway to be worked entirely without animal traction: it used inclined planes with stationary engines, self-acting inclined planes powered by gravity, and locomotives.On 19 April 1821 Stephenson was introduced to Edward Pease, one of the main promoters of the Stockton \& Darlington Railway (S \& DR), which by coincidence received its Act of Parliament the same day. George Stephenson carried out a further survey, to improve the proposed line, and in this he was assisted by his 18-year-old son, Robert Stephenson, whom he had ensured received the theoretical education which he himself lacked. It is doubtful whether either could have succeeded without the other; together they were to make the steam railway practicable.At George Stephenson's instance, much of the S \& DR was laid with wrought-iron rails recently developed by John Birkinshaw at Bedlington Ironworks, Morpeth. These were longer than cast-iron rails and were not brittle: they made a track well suited for locomotives. In June 1823 George and Robert Stephenson, with other partners, founded a firm in Newcastle upon Tyne to build locomotives and rolling stock and to do general engineering work: after its Managing Partner, the firm was called Robert Stephenson \& Co.In 1824 the promoters of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway (L \& MR) invited George Stephenson to resurvey their proposed line in order to reduce opposition to it. William James, a wealthy land agent who had become a visionary protagonist of a national railway network and had seen Stephenson's locomotives at Killingworth, had promoted the L \& MR with some merchants of Liverpool and had carried out the first survey; however, he overreached himself in business and, shortly after the invitation to Stephenson, became bankrupt. In his own survey, however, George Stephenson lacked the assistance of his son Robert, who had left for South America, and he delegated much of the detailed work to incompetent assistants. During a devastating Parliamentary examination in the spring of 1825, much of his survey was shown to be seriously inaccurate and the L \& MR's application for an Act of Parliament was refused. The railway's promoters discharged Stephenson and had their line surveyed yet again, by C.B. Vignoles.The Stockton \& Darlington Railway was, however, triumphantly opened in the presence of vast crowds in September 1825, with Stephenson himself driving the locomotive Locomotion, which had been built at Robert Stephenson \& Co.'s Newcastle works. Once the railway was at work, horse-drawn and gravity-powered traffic shared the line with locomotives: in 1828 Stephenson invented the horse dandy, a wagon at the back of a train in which a horse could travel over the gravity-operated stretches, instead of trotting behind.Meanwhile, in May 1826, the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway had successfully obtained its Act of Parliament. Stephenson was appointed Engineer in June, and since he and Vignoles proved incompatible the latter left early in 1827. The railway was built by Stephenson and his staff, using direct labour. A considerable controversy arose c. 1828 over the motive power to be used: the traffic anticipated was too great for horses, but the performance of the reciprocal system of cable haulage developed by Benjamin Thompson appeared in many respects superior to that of contemporary locomotives. The company instituted a prize competition for a better locomotive and the Rainhill Trials were held in October 1829.Robert Stephenson had been working on improved locomotive designs since his return from America in 1827, but it was the L \& MR's Treasurer, Henry Booth, who suggested the multi-tubular boiler to George Stephenson. This was incorporated into a locomotive built by Robert Stephenson for the trials: Rocket was entered by the three men in partnership. The other principal entrants were Novelty, entered by John Braithwaite and John Ericsson, and Sans Pareil, entered by Timothy Hackworth, but only Rocket, driven by George Stephenson, met all the organizers' demands; indeed, it far surpassed them and demonstrated the practicability of the long-distance steam railway. With the opening of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway in 1830, the age of railways began.Stephenson was active in many aspects. He advised on the construction of the Belgian State Railway, of which the Brussels-Malines section, opened in 1835, was the first all-steam railway on the European continent. In England, proposals to link the L \& MR with the Midlands had culminated in an Act of Parliament for the Grand Junction Railway in 1833: this was to run from Warrington, which was already linked to the L \& MR, to Birmingham. George Stephenson had been in charge of the surveys, and for the railway's construction he and J.U. Rastrick were initially Principal Engineers, with Stephenson's former pupil Joseph Locke under them; by 1835 both Stephenson and Rastrick had withdrawn and Locke was Engineer-in-Chief. Stephenson remained much in demand elsewhere: he was particularly associated with the construction of the North Midland Railway (Derby to Leeds) and related lines. He was active in many other places and carried out, for instance, preliminary surveys for the Chester \& Holyhead and Newcastle \& Berwick Railways, which were important links in the lines of communication between London and, respectively, Dublin and Edinburgh.He eventually retired to Tapton House, Chesterfield, overlooking the North Midland. A man who was self-made (with great success) against colossal odds, he was ever reluctant, regrettably, to give others their due credit, although in retirement, immensely wealthy and full of honour, he was still able to mingle with people of all ranks.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsPresident, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, on its formation in 1847. Order of Leopold (Belgium) 1835. Stephenson refused both a knighthood and Fellowship of the Royal Society.Bibliography1815, jointly with Ralph Dodd, British patent no. 3,887 (locomotive drive by connecting rods directly to the wheels).1817, jointly with William Losh, British patent no. 4,067 (steam springs for locomotives, and improvements to track).Further ReadingL.T.C.Rolt, 1960, George and Robert Stephenson, Longman (the best modern biography; includes a bibliography).S.Smiles, 1874, The Lives of George and Robert Stephenson, rev. edn, London (although sycophantic, this is probably the best nineteenthcentury biography).PJGR
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