Word: volt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred-ton cyclotron, one of the most powerful atom-smashers in the world, will be on view. In addition the visitor may see the new indoor wind-tunnel for testing airplane design; the new electron bombardment furnace, producing temperatures half as hot as the sun; the 100,000 - volt storage battery, most powerful in the world; the high-frequency radio equipment making automatic records of condition in the ionosphere; experiments which have led to a new theory of mountain formation; and many other laboratory features...
...Radio Amateur's Handbook by Technical Expert Ross A. Hull. Recently Expert Hull began experimenting with television reception, assembled specially powerful and sensitive equipment to receive RCA-NBC television transmission in his Vernon cottage (near Hartford, Conn.). He temporarily rigged up a 2½-kilowatt, 4,400-volt pole transformer. Last week it killed...
...electron-volt is the energy acquired by an electron to which a force of one volt is applied...
...make up four-fifths of the eel's body. If a man or animal touches an electric eel, he will be mildly shocked. But if he were brash enough to grab both the eel's head and tail at the same time, he might get a 500-volt charge. These electric eels, which grow to 8 ft., 50 lb., swim about in stagnant pools, paralyze small fish by discharging electricity, can keep their prey unconscious for several hours, gobble them up at will. The uneaten fish recover from the paralysis unharmed...
...some 250.000 miles of electric fence in use on more than 100.000 U. S. farms. Most of them consist of a single wire, though many farmers use two, or even three, for small animals. Two or three feet above the ground, the wires are connected with the no-volt electric supply line or to a 6-volt battery through a controller which governs the voltage and current so that the fence will shock livestock without injury. A survey Idaho took two years ago showed that the State's farmers are turning more & more to electric fences, are finding...