Word: byproduct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accidental byproduct of George Westinghouse's development (1885) of alternating current. The Edison Co., which sold direct current, tried to dramatize A.C.'s dangers by using it to kill stray cats and dogs. Impressed, the New York legislature adapted A.C. for killing humans in a 2,000-volt electric chair at Sing Sing Prison...
...soon lose weight and gain power. Fuel cells may never compete with such large sources of electricity as coal-burning power stations, but they are candidates for smaller jobs in which convenience and efficiency are important. They may soon find a use in space, contributing valuable water as a byproduct along with their electricity. On earth they may provide cheap, quiet electricity for homes, weather stations or microwave repeaters beyond the reach of commercial power lines...
...Hamilton set for it in 1792-but miners complain that the sum is too low to pay for the slow, costly process of digging and refining it. Because of this economic disparity, the U.S. has only four important silver mines in operation, gets most of its supply as a byproduct of other metals. Last year the U.S. mined only one-ninth as much as the 323 million ounces of silver that it consumed, made up the difference by dipping into the Treasury's huge but rapidly dwindling hoard, which now stands at 1.2 billion ounces...
Psychiatrists have delved for years into the psyche of the alcoholic in an attempt to understand what drives him to drink. But rarely have doctors investigated the unlovely but all too frequent byproduct of alcoholism - wife beating...
Paddling Through Animals. Dreamer-up of all this zoological ingenuity is North America's No. 1 architect to the animal world, Robert Everly, 58, of Winnetka, Ill. Everly got into zoo designing ten years ago as a byproduct of planning recreation areas, and has traveled all over the world studying old zoos and planning new ones...