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  • Thumbnail for Magneto
    A magneto is an electrical generator that uses permanent magnets to produce periodic pulses of alternating current. Unlike a dynamo, a magneto does not...
    18 KB (2,088 words) - 01:57, 5 May 2024
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    from diesel engines). An ignition magneto also includes an electrical transformer, which converts the electricity to a higher voltage (with the trade-off...
    8 KB (769 words) - 23:43, 15 June 2023
  • eventually revealed to be the X-Men's nemesis Magneto in disguise at the climax of Morrison's run. After Magneto is apparently killed during the "Planet X"...
    25 KB (3,088 words) - 05:23, 20 May 2024
  • efficiency and reliability greatly. The first magnetos only converted a few percent of mechanical energy to electricity. By the end of the 19th century the highest...
    77 KB (8,504 words) - 07:26, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Magnetohydrodynamics
    Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD; also called magneto-fluid dynamics or hydro­magnetics) is a model of electrically conducting fluids that treats all interpenetrating...
    43 KB (5,241 words) - 01:02, 25 May 2024
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    "Davis's Manual of Magnetism: Including Also Electro-magnetism, Magneto-electricity, and Thermo ..."". archive.org. 1842. Wikimedia Commons has media...
    5 KB (632 words) - 11:22, 3 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ignition system
    systems becoming widespread since the 1990s. An ignition magneto (also called a high-tension magneto) is an older type of ignition system used in spark-ignition...
    12 KB (1,315 words) - 14:45, 22 December 2023
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    James Prescott Joule (category People associated with electricity)
    1841. doi:10.1080/14786444108650416. "On the Calorific Effects of Magneto-Electricity, and on the Mechanical Value of Heat". Philosophical Magazine. 3...
    32 KB (3,481 words) - 13:36, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ignition coil
    cars used a magneto ignition system, due to the lack of an electric power source (e.g. battery) in the car. Ignition coils replaced magneto ignition in...
    7 KB (884 words) - 00:26, 9 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Electric generator
    In electricity generation, a generator is a device that converts motion-based power (potential and kinetic energy) or fuel-based power (chemical energy)...
    32 KB (3,814 words) - 03:31, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of electromagnetic theory
    measures to understand atmospheric electricity, in particular lightning. People then had little understanding of electricity, and were unable to explain the...
    163 KB (20,896 words) - 11:56, 17 May 2024
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    magazine}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) "Lighthouse Illumination by Magneto-Electricity". The Dublin Builder. 15 August 1864. p. 14. Cutler J. Cleveland;...
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  • Thumbnail for Copley Medal
    Denis Poisson "For his discovery of Magneto-Electricity as detailed in his Experimental Researches in Electricity, published in the Philosophical Transactions...
    131 KB (5,189 words) - 12:40, 6 June 2024
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    Machine Lockwood, Thomas D. (1883). Electricity, Magnetism, and Electric Telegraphy. D. Van Nostrand. pp. 76–77. magneto-electric machine. Schellen, Heinrich;...
    26 KB (3,303 words) - 04:02, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Electromagnetic induction
    to a battery. He saw a transient current, which he called a "wave of electricity", when he connected the wire to the battery and another when he disconnected...
    25 KB (2,846 words) - 18:37, 26 May 2024
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    2020-12-20. Joule, J.P. (1843). "LII. On the calorific effects of magneto-electricity, and on the mechanical value of heat". The London, Edinburgh, and...
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  • Computing Joule, James P. (England). On the Calorific Effects of Magneto-Electricity, and on the Mechanical Value of Heat. London, 1843. Conservation...
    67 KB (4,623 words) - 23:47, 30 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Magnetorheological fluid
    the ferromagnetic particles friction, as described by the semiempirical magneto-tribological model by Zhang et al. Even though applying a pressure strongly...
    26 KB (3,347 words) - 04:09, 16 May 2024
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    however its use only became widespread after the invention of the ignition magneto in 1902. Diesel engines use compression ignition (instead of spark ignition)...
    15 KB (1,637 words) - 17:26, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wireless power transfer
    demonstration of wireless transmission via conduction came in Amos Dolbear's 1879 magneto electric telephone that used ground conduction to transmit over a distance...
    124 KB (12,905 words) - 00:36, 31 May 2024
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