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  1. Locomotive (16705 bytes)
    25: ... dynamometer car) reached 126 mph (203 km/h) on a slight downhill gradient down Stoke Bank on [[3 July...
    41: ..., the diesel engine drives a [[generator (device)|generator]] or [[alternator]]; the electrical power produce...
    45: ...umber 43. The unpowered carriages were simultaneously reclassifed as individual coaches - the number o...
    60: Diesel-hydraulic locomotives are slightly more efficient than diesel-electrics, but w...
    63: ... the turbines running at constant speed driving a generator, feeding to large electric motors driving the whe...
  2. Actinium (7046 bytes)
    138: ... used in medicine to produce Bi-213 in a reusable generator or can be used alone as an agent for radio-immuno...
  3. Greek language (35285 bytes)
    3: ...taly]], south [[Republic of Macedonia|Former Yugloslav Republic of Macedonia]], central and south [[Bu...
    266: ...;γγνώμη (freely translated "I'm sorry") in which /n/ is phoneticaly drop...
    348: Transliterated:
    457: ...eakers'' (Longman Linguistics Library). Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1997. ISBN 0582307090
    484: *[http://www.lorem-ipsum.info/_greek Generator for Greek typographical filler text]
  4. Connecticut (28543 bytes)
    52: ...by [[Massachusetts]], and on the east by [[Rhode Island]]. The state capital is [[Hartford, Connecticu...
    54: ...rough the center of the state, flowing into Long Island Sound, Connecticut's outlet to the [[Atlantic ...
    105: ...utator]] central to the operation of electrical [[generator]]s and [[motor]]s. [[Edwin R. Fellows]] of [[Torr...
    229: *[[Wesleyan University]]
  5. West Virginia (24258 bytes)
    48: ...ti-secessionist legislators convened a [[rump legislature]] and formed a pro-Union reformed government...
    58: ... full-time, but part-time. Consequently, the legislators hold a full-time job in their community of r...
    60: ... early April. The remainder of the year sees legislators gathering periodically for interim meetings ...
    86: ...home heating either. Most coal today is used by [[generator|power plant]]s to produce [[electricity]].
    252: *[[West Virginia Wesleyan College]]
  6. Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
    45: * [[sledges]] - [[Scandinavia]]
    119: * [[1620]]: [[Slide rule]]: [[William Oughtred]]
    204: * [[1831]]: [[Electrical generator]]: [[Michael Faraday]]
    281: * [[1877]]: [[Induction motor]]: [[Nikola Tesla]]
    303: ...]) [[electric motor|induction motor]]: [[Nikola Tesla]]
  7. List of inventors (14020 bytes)
    151: *[[Elijah McCoy]] — son of former slaves, patented many [[lubrication]] devices
    173: *[[Slavoljub Eduard Penkala]], (1871-1922), [[Croatia]]...
    186: ...]], [[United States|USA]] — automatic bread-slicing machine
    196: ...6-1892), [[Germany]] — dynamo ([[electrical generator]]), electrical railroad, electrical elevator
    206: ...ication]], [[robot]]ics, [[logic gate]]s, the [[Tesla turbine|bladeless turbine]], radio and [[VTOL|V...
  8. Pioneer 11 (5118 bytes)
    3: ...0]], used Jupiter's [[mass]] in a [[gravitational slingshot]] to alter its [[trajectory]] toward Satur...
    5: ...ecraft contains two [[radioisotope thermoelectric generator]]s (RTGs), which generated 144 [[Watt|W]] at Jupi...
    11: ...g began in [[February]] [[1985]] due to declining generator power output. Science operations and daily [[tele...
  9. Alternative technology (2518 bytes)
    10: * [[Wind generator]]s
  10. List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
    296: [[hack (technology slang)]] --
    542: [[Report Programm Generator|RPG]] --
    569: [[Slide rule]] --
    570: [[SLIP]] --
    571: [[SLR parser]] --
  11. Philo Farnsworth (6489 bytes)
    11: ...em was further improved by elimination of a motor generator; the television system now has no mechanical movi...
    25: ...n]]. Unlike most controlled fusion systems, which slowly heat a magnetically confined [[plasma]], the ...
  12. Windmill (7108 bytes)
    1: ...mill.jpg|thumbnail|200px| Windmills on the Greek Island of Myconos. Image provided by [http://classroo...
    8: ...icient]] wind-powered water pumps and [[power]] [[generator]]s.
    14: ... a large number of blades so that they would turn slowly but with considerable torque in low winds and...
    30: *[[wind generator]]
    65: ...cs.co.uk/ln/details/e1996u.htm ''"A low-cost wind generator driven battery charger (January) 1 ? (Page) 56"''...
  13. Electricity (13894 bytes)
    10: ...egarded as having invented an early electrostatic generator. Other European pioneers were [[Robert Boyle]], ...
    12: ...er Franklin (more frequently) or [[Ebenezer Kinnersley]] of [[Philadelphia]] (less frequently) who cre...
    20: ...ch giants of electrical engineering as [[Nikola Tesla]], inventor of the [[induction motor]] and the f...
    22: ...ittsburgh, Pennsylvania]], bought the rights to Tesla's patents for polyphase alternating-current dyna...
  14. History of rail transport (7056 bytes)
    34: ...motives are electric locomotives with an on-board generator powered by a Diesel engine. The first Diesel loc...
  15. Hybrid vehicle (47544 bytes)
    6: ... of design optimization only. ''See also [[motor-generator]]'' which produces electricity to charge the batt...
    12: ...} program in September 29, 1993 that involved Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, USCAR, the DoE, and othe...
    22: ...Hybrid | Camry Hybrid]] has been announced and is slated to launch in late Spring as a 2007 model. It ...
    67: ... simply involves running the motor backwards as a generator.
    72: ...o the drivetrain at all, but powers an electrical generator instead. This is similar to the operation of die...
  16. Guitar (36953 bytes)
    17: ...me for these lutes, that is, ''qitara,'' is obviously rooted in Persian. The name "guitar" was first i...
    44: ... of the neck. It is flat on classical guitars and slightly curved crosswise on acoustic and electric g...
    48: ...orward, and changes in humidity can warp the wood slightly. The truss rod allows the neck to be adjust...
    52: ...sely, the ability to change the pitch of the note slightly by deliberately bending the neck forcibly w...
    63: ... work. Pickups work on a similar principle to a [[generator]] in that the vibration of the strings causes a s...
  17. Moon (37975 bytes)
    197: ...onous rotation]] is a result of [[torque]] having slowed down the Moon's rotation in its early history...
    216: ...t the same time the Earth's rotation is gradually slowing, the Earth's day thus lengthens by about 15 ...
    218: ...n the Moon is at its [[perigee]], its rotation is slower than its orbital motion, and this allows us t...
    226: ... = 28.60? and 23.45? - 5.15? = 18.30?. Simultaneously, the axis of lunar rotation sees its tilt ''with...
    317: Over time, comets and meteorites continuously bombard the Moon. Many of these objects are wate...
  18. Hydrogen (20221 bytes)
    127: ...ogen is used as the rotor coolant in [[electrical generator]]s at [[power station]]s.
    130: ...cations]] as a [[neutron moderator|moderator]] to slow down [[neutron]]s, and is also used in [[nuclea...
    133: ...-burning [[automobile|cars]] is maintained by Chrysler-BMW (see [[Hydrogen car]]). Hydrogen [[fuel cel...
    181: ... during hydrogen cooling. The two forms have also slightly different physical properties. For example,...
  19. Molybdenum (10247 bytes)
    189: ...easured in seconds. Mo-99 is used in [[sorpation generator]]s that are used to create Tc-99 for the nuclear ...
    192: ...ugh water-soluble molybdenum compounds can have a slight toxicity, those that are insoluble, such as t...
  20. Plutonium (24623 bytes)
    169: ...s therefore used in [[radioisotope thermoelectric generator|RTG]]s such as those powering the [[Galileo probe...
    188: ...ns more easily with [[fast neutron]]s than with [[slow neutron]]s, although both can be used. The U-2...
    192: ...ould have machinery added that would permit U-238 slugs to be placed near the core and changed frequen...
    212: ...s suitable for use in radioisotope thermoelectric generators; see above for more details. The isotope Pu-240...
    232: ...nths later, another Los Alamos scientist, [[Louis Slotin]], died from a similar accident. In [[1958]],...

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