Magneto
[mæg'niːtəʊ] or [mæɡ'nito]
Definition
(noun.) a small dynamo with a secondary winding that produces a high voltage enabling a spark to jump between the poles of a spark plug in a gasoline engine.
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Examples
- Scientists and inventors now had two forms of electrical machines to produce light: the voltaic battery and the magneto-electric apparatus. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This principle was the discovery of Soren Hjorth, of Copenhagen, and is fully described in his British patent, No. 806 of 1855, for An Improved Magneto-Electric Battery. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Both of these machines had permanent field magnets, and were early types of magneto-electric machines. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He said of his own connection with it, When I struck the telephone business the Bell people had no transmitter, but were talking into the magneto receiver. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Inventors were not yet satisfied with the power developed from either the voltaic battery or the magneto-electric machine, and continued to improve the latter. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In 1867, the same year that Faraday died, and too late for him to witness its glory, came out the most powerful magneto-electric machine that had yet been produced. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Even before the true dynamo was invented the magneto-electric machine was employed for producing an electric current to supply electric light. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The stepping stone to the dynamo in its development was the _magneto-electrical machine_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This made the telephone commercial, as the magneto telephone receiver of Bell was too weak to be used as a transmitter commercially. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Magneto ignition first appeared in 1908; previous to that date all ignition had been dependent upon batteries of the ordinary dry-cell variety. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This is the principle of the magneto-electric machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- First Magneto-Electric Machines by Saxton in United States and Pixii in France. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Bell invented the first telephone, which consisted of the present receiver, used both as a transmitter and a receiver (the magneto type). Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The efficiency of these magneto-electric machines was necessarily limited to the strength of the inducing field magnets, which, being permanent magnets, were a positive and fixed factor. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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