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With great depths and greater capacities, speed becomes a momentous factor, and direct-coupled engines are necessary.

From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Hoover, Herbert

The engines were direct-coupled to their respective dynamos.

From Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' by Government, British

The oil-engine has been so improved that it is extensively used in combination with a direct-coupled or belt-driven dynamo and thus forms a favourite and easily-managed plant for private electric lighting.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various

While the engines were not directly coupled to the dynamos, it was a curious fact that the piston speeds and number of revolutions were what is common to-day in isolated direct-coupled plants.

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis

Where great rope speed is not essential they are fully as economical as direct-coupled engines.

From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Hoover, Herbert