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William Morris Mordey (28 March 1856 – 1 July 1938) was a British electrical engineer.
Mordey, who became active in the early 1880s, designed a special armature type for DC dynamos, an original AC alternator, and a type of transformer at an early stage in his career. He further contributed through numerous investigations and publications to the clarification of various issues, including the origin of electromagnetic induction currents, the laws of magnetic fields, and eddy currents.
Mordey is arguably best known for the aforementioned alternating current machine, which differed significantly from those customary at the time. The magnet wheel, which contained a single coil, was designed so that the poles gripped around the thin disc-shaped armature winding in such a way that all poles on one side had the same polarity. While this design lost its significance for standard purposes early on, its leading principles later reappeared in generators for high-frequency current, used particularly for wireless telegraphy.
Mordey was active for a long time at the London firm Brush Electrical Engineering Company and later held a prominent position among England‘s consulting engineers. He served as President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers from 1908 to 1909. He died in Warlingham, Surrey, on 1 July 1938.
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