A replica of Henry Wilde's 1863 dynamo generator with magneto exciter. A two-part generator with an upper section (magneto) having a row of twenty horseshoe magnets with an armature mounted along the ...

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A wooden base on which is mounted a flat, horizontal field coil with a bar magnet spinning the center. Green cloth insulated wire. A brass and hard rubber frame support the magnet on a vertical axle, ...