I recall seeing a picture of a mechanical PWM controller comprising of a segmented copper disk being spun by smaller electric motor. Two brushes that could be moved relative to one another sat side-by-side on the disk making for PWM control. I can only imagine the shower of sparks it created running an electric motor for the little while it lasted, unless they had some heroic snubber across it.
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