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dynamo: see generator generator, in electricity, machine used to change mechanical energy into electrical energy. It operates on the principle of electromagnetic induction , discovered (1831) by Michael Faraday. ..... Click the link for more information. . dynamo a device for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy, esp one that produces direct current dynamo [′dī·nə‚mō] (computer science)
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"I start twelve immensely strong wires -- naked, not insulated -- from a big dynamo in the cave -- dynamo with no brushes except a positive and a negative one --" It needs charging often, but I have a dynamo of my own. Her interior was wholly rebuilt, so that the hold became main-cabin and staterooms, while abaft amidships were installed engines, a dynamo, an ice machine, storage batteries, and, far in the stern, gasoline tanks. |
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