Word: coiling
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...lens strengthens a spotlight beam, one of Radus' ceramic sandwiches only an inch square can exert a pull of some 30 lbs. The problem-to make it let go. If a few turns of wire are wrapped around the sandwich, and a small current is sent through the coil for a fraction of a second, most of the pulling power switches in an instant from one end of the magnet to the other. A few flashlight batteries can supply enough juice-not nearly so much as would be needed by an equivalent electromagnet...
...tenants have had complaints. One of them. Governor Culbert Olson (1939-1943), fell through the crumbling front steps. The latest, Pat Brown, is awakened at dawn each day by trucks that rumble past the house and shake it to its ancient foundations. Brown is also slightly apprehensive about the coil of rope he must keep near his bed by order of state fire officials who say the mansion is a charming firetrap...
...these mechanical fossils is the antique ignition system. It has a circuit breaker with rapidly moving contact points that change the battery's direct current into a pulsating flow that the induction coil can raise to high voltage. This charge then goes to a distributor that feeds short pulses to the spark plugs at the proper time to ignite the mixture of gasoline and air in the cylinders...
There are two types of transistorized systems. The simplest send only a small current through the breaker points, thus saving wear. The small pulsating current from the points triggers a transistor system that in turn controls the high current needed by the coil. Manufacturers claim that such systems save fuel, give more fire power, make both points and plugs work indefinitely at top efficiency at any speed. An even more rewarding system produced by New Jersey's Motion Inc. includes a capacitor that is charged by the high-tension current that is normally fed directly from coil to spark...
...home runs over assorted fences to break Babe Ruth's 34-year-old record. The day seemed not far off when bleacher fans would wear the gloves and ballplayers would drink the beer. But this year, excitement suddenly came back to baseball-at least in ballparks where a coil-spring, 30-year-old shortstop named Maury Wills was playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 161 games, with two games to go, Wills stole an even 100 bases, shattering the record of 96 set by Ty Cobb. and that was way back...