Word: volt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...activities of the department are not limited to repair, however. The electrical division, for example, has just completed installing the new 15,000 volt transformers to carry the added load of the Physics Lab's cyclotron. But the most spectacular of the department's functions is the heating of Harvard buildings. Steam for over 180 buildings is brought from the Cambridge Electric Light Co. through two 19-inch pipes while a third one carries returning water. These pipes run through four miles of underground tunnels...
...relays, each containing its own built-in power supply. The cells burn sugar to carbon dioxide and water, and use the energy produced to keep their outer surfaces electrically charged in relation to their interiors. The electrical tension (voltage) between the two parts is about seven-hundredths of a volt...
Seconds before the crash, the DC-6 roared 100 feet over the floor of a narrow valley near Mt. Carmel. It was heading into a coal mine's tall breaker building. Then it veered-and the next instant there was no more plane. It rammed a 66,000-volt transformer and disintegrated in a flash of flame. It was 1948's worst airline disaster, and the fourth worst in U.S. domestic airline history...
...join the thousands of others who will inform you that a microvolt is one-millionth of a volt...
...only reflected from abroad; it was all around him. He saw it in new highways and new bridges; in factories, schools and hospitals springing up everywhere; in the dust-streaked tractors clanking through the spring plowing. He read of it in the plans for a 6-billion-electron-volt atom-smasher at the University of California (see SCIENCE). He heard it in the farmer's talk of a bumper wheat crop-the fifth bumper crop in a miraculous...