Fireman's School - demonstrating magneto – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Fireman's School - demonstrating magneto
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A demonstration at a fireman's school focuses on the magneto, the small generator that produced the electrical spark firing an engine's cylinders. Magnetos spread in gasoline engines in the early 1900s, and as motorized apparatus replaced horse-drawn pumpers in American cities, departments had to train their men to keep these engines running. The picture belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by a New York news photo service that sold pictures to newspapers. The record gives no date, so the year of the lesson is uncertain.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,741 × 4,228 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10852 |
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