Sentences with phrase «making alternating current»

(Another connection: Nikola is named after Nikola Tesla, who among many other things is responsible for making alternating current dominant on the electric grid.)

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Instead of listening, Edison launched a fearmongering campaign to make people fear alternating current.

The current efforts should be to reject models that sanction the undercutting of a plurality of religious, cultural, political, and social expressions and to imagine alternate models that legitimate and empower multiple religious, cultural, political, and social self - expressions of the various communities that make up the Indian nation.

A power inverter can make the conversion to AC, but a typical inverter with the required capabilities contains about 300 pounds of material: a computer to change the frequency of alternating current as motor speed changes, massive switches, and cooling equipment to dissipate the heat generated by the heavy current.

By tapping into the random fluctuations of the carbon atoms that make up graphene sheets, the scientists can generate an alternating current strong enough to indefinitely power a wristwatch.

The gold standard for this sort of true - life journalistic muckraker is, of course, «All the President's Men,» a movie that took place in the»70s, was made in the»70s, and tapped the alternating current of corruption and idealism that helped define the»70s.

I'm on the fence on this one... recently I've been playing tougher, longer games, (Wolfenstein, RE5 etc.) and Cloudy With a Chance Of Meatballs was a nice break from that and although the dialogue is often times completely irrelevant to the current situation, a good selection of funny weapons and a collectables system with alternate ending make this game fun... I thoroughly enjoyed the 12 hours of gameplay that it did offer but it's really hard to get attached to something that doesn't stay around too long... I have a Gamepass from Blockbuster which allows me unlimited game rentals.

Because of the whole Star Wars Legends alternate universe (the classic Expanded Universe) and the current canon universe, there's some move for changes to be made in the movie and not to play spoiler, they change it up from the previous novels.

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In today's solar photovoltaic systems, direct current power coming from solar panels is converted to alternating current power, making it compatible with a building's electrical distribution.

Relationships Scotland is calling for more families to be made aware of mediation as an alternate route to court action and, off the back of our manifesto, we are asking for a change to the current law to make this happen We are encouraged by the support shown in response to media coverage on the issue in the Herald, on BBC Radio Scotland, in the Courier, Third Force News and the Journal of the Law Society.