The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games

Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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Connecting Rod

-The rod which connects the piston to the crank shaft, and translates the reciprocating motion of the former to the circular motion of the latter.

Contact Breaker of the magneto is the mechanism usually placed on the end of the armature shaft, and which is necessary to rupture the primary current at the correct moment, and thereby cause an induced high-tension current in the secondary coil.

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