Word: volt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railroad. Just after dark we got about 400 yards offshore. A train popped out of the tunnel and we fired. The first shell exploded just inside the cab where the driver was. Several of our shells hit the posts which carry the electric line. It was a 5,000-volt system. For about a mile there was a solid sheet of flame where the wires swung against the ground. The bushes and stuff were dry. They caught fire, and made a most beautiful blaze...
...understand that I can get a 110-volt, 60-cycle, A.C. here...
Goodyear's new "radio static neutralizer" has a set of electronic tubes that intercepts outside electrical interference and reduces it to less than one twenty-thousandth of a volt. In one test a 25,000-volt spark projected on a radio antenna was so effectively tamed by the neutralizer that the set smoothly brought in a short-wave broadcast from Europe. But the neutralizer is reserved for the armed forces, will not be available to civilians until after...
...hand. One of them picked up a hot lead in the lab the other day and let go of the situaiton in a hurry. Lieutenant Bullock, who happened to be nearby, took notes. He is making a survey of the electrical muscular sensitivity of humans in inches per volt. Volunteers to be subjects for his experiments, please see Lieutenant Bullock in his office...
...envelopes of assorted sizes and a lightweight portable black light lamp which can be placed on the navigator's table or worn like a miner's lamp. The envelopes are made of orange-red fluorescent-treated transparent plastic. The lamp may be the four-watt, 24-28-volt black light already standard with both the Army & Navy. When the lamp is held five inches above an envelope, the latter's fluorescent surface steps up the short ultraviolet waves enough to make them visible, not enough to destroy eye adaptation. The illumination, unlike that of an ordinary...