jump spark
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of jump spark
First recorded in 1905–10
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His speech and his movements fairly crackle with energy; his enthusiasm is as communicable as a jump spark.
From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
I took a magneto off an old car and changed the wiring in the inside so it would put out an alternating current instead of a jump spark.
From The Life of Me; an autobiography by Clarence Edgar Johnson
Make-and-break ignition is used on the engine; however, a jump spark would be much better.
From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.
By using an ordinary telephone transmitter and receiver and a 1/2-in. jump spark coil, a complete wireless telegraph station may be made, which will send or receive messages for a radius of one mile.
From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.
Mechanism composed of a battery, induction coil and a vibrator, for making a jump spark, to ignite gas, powder, etc.
From Electricity for Boys by James Slough Zerbe
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