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THIS little book of 75 pages is designed to give to amateurs practical information as to the construction of a small working dynamo-machine. What is aimed at is the building up of a machine capable of being worked by hand and suitable for experimental purposes. The dynamo-electric machine is one which an amateur mechanician may very well undertake with every prospect of success and satisfaction; and the book before us is thoroughly practical and is pleasantly written, and will, we feel sure, be acceptable to many. We are acquainted with books on the steam-engine for amateur constructors; but a dynamo of simple form is easier to make than a steam-engine, and will, we think, when made, prove a far more useful and pleasure-giving toy than a steam-engine such as an amateur can put together. When all is done, a steam-engine of amateur construction can do little more than go round and round; but a host of experiments in electric lighting and in electro-chemistry may be made to follow on the successful completion of a small hand-dynamo.
The Dynamo: How Made and How Used.
A Book for Amateurs. By S. R. Bottone. (London: W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1884.)
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The Dynamo: How Made and How Used . Nature 31, 52 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031052a0
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