A recent Ebay purchase, there were a lot of other bidders, and I hope that none of them were other Forum members! But if they were, then I saved you a lot of money! This little dynamo was designed to run a very early train set. I assume if the owner had electric in his home, he simply would have purchased a transformer to run the train. Perhaps it was not available yet, or perhaps many people did not have electricity in their homes in the early 1900's. This dynamo would have demanded something to run it at 1200 rpm to produce ten volts. I intend to run it off either my vertical or horizontal quarter-horse Sipps engine. A train set from this era would have been a substantial investment in its day.
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