Practical hand book of gas, oil and steam engines, stationary, marine, traction; gas burners, oil burners, etc.; farm, traction, automobile, locomotive; a simple, practical and comprehensive book on the construction, operation and repair of all kinds of engines (1916)
Rathbun, John B. [from old catalog] · Chicago, Charles C. Thompson co · leaf 266
the breaker housingnaturally with the unavoidable result that if the position of themagnetic field remains stationary, the relative position betweenarmature and field at the moment of the break must vary. Since,however, as explained above, the quality of the spark dependsupon this relative… … Fig. 111. Side Elevation of Mea Magneto, Showing the Magnets, andCradle in Which the Magneto Swings When Advanced and Retarded. familiar with automobiles. They are the difficulty of crankinga motor on one of the average high tension magnetos, if thespark is fully retarded, and of operating the…
Internal combustion engines · Traction-engines
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