Abstract: Electric generators having a rotor on a shaft and a stator, both carrying peripherally successive poles that have a substantially uniform angular distance or pole step therebetween, with at least one pair of electrically identical but separate, axially aligned generator sections that include pole cores that occupy substantially the same sectors as the gaps between them, and wherein the angular position of the rotor shaft, in which the poles overlap between the rotor and the stator of the same generator section, is offset for both sections by half the angular distance between the poles. Preferably at least one group of radially mounted, and at least one group of axially mounted, pole pairs os provided in both the rotor and the stator. Preferred exemplary embodiments are disclosed.