The internal combustion engine; being a text book on gas, oil and petrol engines, for the use of students and engineers (1909)
Wimperis, Harry Egerton, 1876- · New York, Van Nostrand · leaf 299
cuit to be broken at C, so producing a spark at that point. wound on to the arm-ature so as to act asa secondary circuit.The effect is thatvery high voltagecurrents are pro-duced and the cur-rent can be led tosparking plugs of theordinary type in thecylinders. This has … Fig. 103. — Typical low tension magnetospark plug. It will be noticed that thissystem of ignition requires moving con-tacts in the cylinder, which the high tensionsystem does not. OIL AND PETROL ENGINES 2?9 the advantage that no moving parts need to be introducedinto the cylinder in order to…
Internal combustion engines
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