Same as for ignition magneto and telephone magneto.
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See telephone magneto and another telephone magneto.
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See telephone magneto and another telephone magneto.
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If it was like a half a minute or something, then Edison s telephone magneto explanation is more plausible.
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Also, it " was " a telephone magneto, the pictures match perfectly ( as does my description somewhat ).
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:: A telephone magneto will light a 7.5 watt 120 volt bulb, but not ( in my experience 40 watts or larger.
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Edison s telephone magneto explanation is also a perfectly reasonable explanation, although it doesn t match up as well with the OP s memory of the device.
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It is entirely appropriate to have detailed articles on the narrower applications, such as telephone magneto, ignition magneto, bottle dynamo and magneto ( generator ).
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Telephone magnetos featured a large gear rotated by hand with a handle, that drove a much smaller gear on the armature rotor, providing a high gear-ratio to increase the rotational speed of the magneto armature.
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Looking at this picture of a telephone magneto, I can see how you might be under the impression that someone had hand-made the thing from scratch, using the gear assembly and crank taken from an old pencil sharpener . talk ) 01 : 06, 24 February 2008 ( UTC)