wound rotor in a sentence

Examples

1. Although Westinghouse achieved its first practical induction motor in 1892 and developed a line of polyphase 60 hertz induction motors in 1893, these early Westinghouse motors were two-phase motors with wound rotors until B . G . Lamme developed a rotating bar winding rotor.
2. In 1888, Tesla presented his paper " A New System for Alternating Current Motors and Transformers " to the AIEE that described three patented two-phase four-stator-pole motor types : one with a four-pole rotor forming a non-self-starting reluctance motor, another with a wound rotor forming a self-starting induction motor, and the third a true synchronous motor with separately excited DC supply to rotor winding.