Transformers - Their Theory, Construction and Amplification, Simplified #262455

It has often been observed by almost every member of the electrical fraternity, that induction, and its out come, the transformer, is to the popular mind, the greatest mystery of the whole lighting system with which they come in contact. There is something tangible about the dynamo. Its movement, and the applied power are apparent. The lamp glows, and its action is appreciable, but the trans former remains to them an uncanny mystery. So too the average electrician whose training has long accustomed him to the management and applica tion of the electric current, finds in the transformer as a rule, more points regarding which his mind is hazy and uncertain, than in any other one piece of appara tus with which he has to deal.