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  2. Bottle dynamo - Wikipedia

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    Bottle dynamo mounted on a bicycle. Dismantled bottle dynamo. Left: Housing with internal permanent magnet rotating through the friction wheel. Right: Induction coil. A bottle dynamo or sidewall dynamo is a small electrical generator for bicycles employed to power a bicycle's lights.

  3. Bicycle lighting - Wikipedia

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    Red light on the back of a bicycle Early bicycle lighting: candle lamps, oil lamps and carbide lamps Early bicycle lamps and two early bottle dynamos (1935). Bicycle lighting is illumination attached to bicycles whose purpose above all is, along with reflectors, to improve the visibility of the bicycle and its rider to other road users under circumstances of poor ambient illumination.

  4. Hub dynamo - Wikipedia

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    A hub dynamo is a small electrical generator built into the front hub of a bicycle wheel that is usually used to power lights. Often the hub "dynamo" is not actually a dynamo, which creates DC, but a low-power magneto that creates AC. Most modern hub dynamos are regulated to 3 watts at 6 volts, although some will drive up to 6 watts at 12 volts.

  5. Carbide lamp - Wikipedia

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    This, in turn, controls the flow rate of the gas and the size of the flame at the burner, and thus the amount of light it produces. This type of lamp generally has a reflector behind the flame to help project the light forward. An acetylene gas powered lamp produces a bright, broad light.

  6. Whizzer (motorcycles) - Wikipedia

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    Whizzer bicycle engines are a line of bicycle engines that were produced in the United States from 1939 to 1965. They were commonly sold as kits to be assembled and attached to a consumer's bicycle thus creating a motorized bicycle. Whizzer U.S.A. re-appeared in 1997 to sell an improved version, pre-assembled on an old Schwinn-style bicycle frame.

  7. Reddy Kilowatt - Wikipedia

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    The film updated the Reddy Kilowatt theme song to declare, "I'm in your T-V set with every show you get!" [15] A singing and dancing Reddy Kilowatt was featured in an animated show called “Holiday with Light” in the Tower of Light exhibit at the 1965 New York World's Fair (together with a lightbulb-shaped Benjamin Franklin). [20]