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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: installation is divided between two vehicles, one carrying the
transmitting and receiving apparatus and the generating plant,
the other the fuel supplies and the aerial, together with spare
parts.
The motive power is supplied by a small air cooled petrol or
gasoline motor developing eight horse-power, and coupled direct
to a 2-kilo watt alternator. At one end of the shaft of the
latter the disk discharger is mounted, its function being to
break up the train of waves into groups of waves, so as to impart
a musical sound to the note produced in the receiver. A flexible
cable transmits the electric current from the generator to the
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