A small but heavy fly-wheel is connected with the apparatus, the top of which is just visible in the engraving, which serves to store up power to run the "generator," which is nothing more than a small dynamo, for the necessary number of seconds after the rear of the train has passed.

In passing into the incandescent fuel that fills the generator, the steam is decomposed, and there forms carbonic oxide, while hydrogen is liberated.

Faraday not only gave to the world the first electric generator, but also the first transformer, and one of the first electric motors, and without these gifts the electric transmission of power over long distances, which has justly been regarded as one of the most marvellous achievements of our age, would have been an impossibility.

As each wheel passes off the rock plate, the reaction of the spring throws it up again to its former position, giving additional speed to the gearing within, which is set in motion at the passage of the first wheel, and operates the electric "generator."

Seeing this, Maya's son grew quiet, and having saluted the generator, boldly accused the Radiant.

After sealing up the entrance-window, and ascertaining carefully that everything was in ordera task which occupied me about an hourI set the generator to work; and when I had ascertained that the apergion was full, and that the force was supplied at the required rate, I directed the whole at first into the main conductor.

A current of steam enters the apparatus through the pipe, P, traverses the chambers, B, and enters the generator through the flue, E.

And does anybody want to say that a two-inch pipe is going to run a water wheel with force enough to turn a generator that will drive thirty or forty lights?