electric motor

Also known as motor, electrical motor, electro motor

electromechanical device

AI overview

An electric motor is a device that converts electrical energy into mechanical motion, allowing it to power everything from household appliances to industrial machinery. It matters because it enables countless everyday conveniences and industrial processes that form the backbone of modern life.

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Within Vinony's link graph, electric motor is referenced by 5,169 other articles, and connects out to electrical generator, Lorentz force and brushless DC electric motor.

It is catalogued under topics including British inventions, Electric motors and Electromagnetic components.

Its subject is documented across 96 Wikipedia language editions.

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Commons category: Electric motors
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time of discovery or invention: 1834-00-00

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Encyclopedic overview

An electric motor is a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy. Most electric motors operate through the interaction between the motor's magnetic field and electric current in a wire winding to generate Laplace force in the form of torque applied on the motor's shaft. An electric generator is mechanically identical to an electric motor but operates inversely, converting mechanical energy into electrical energy.

Electric motors can be powered by direct current (DC) sources, such as from batteries or rectifiers, or by alternating current (AC) sources, such as a power grid, inverters or electrical generators. Electric motors may also be classified by considerations such as power source type, construction, application and type of motion output. They can be brushed or brushless, single-phase, two-phase, or three-phase, axial or radial flux, and may be air-cooled or liquid-cooled.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “electric motor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.