Word: volts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bomb-making paraphernalia in his apartment. Investigators said Leary, an unemployed former computer technician, likely intended to have the bomb go off on the subway while it crossed an underwater tunnel from Manhattan to Brooklyn -- after he had disembarked. But the device -- made with two mayonnaise jars, gasoline, 9-volt batteries and a kitchen timer -- went off before he got away, engulfing the stopped train in flames and melting his own sneakers onto his feet. Leary and two others remained in critical condition this afternoon. Wednesday's incident was Leary's second attempt to cash in, police said, citing notes...
WHRB, Harvard's student radio station, is slated to move into the basement of Pennypacker this summer, thanks to a transformer volt installed in Hurlbut courtyard...
Last year 23 Japanese traveling abroad met crime-related deaths. This year Griptone, a Japanese travel-goods company, has opened a store in Osaka, Japan, for the safety-conscious Japanese tourist. Merchandise includes an attache case that gives thieves within 170 ft. a 40-volt electric shock, and safety vests ranging from ice-pick proof to bulletproof. Americans visiting Osaka from New York City might want to pick up a few Griptone products for when they get home...
...world's smallest battery; it is one one-hundredth the size of a red blood cell and puts out twenty one-thousandths of a volt. Its terminals are pillars of copper and silver atoms piled 100,000 high by scientists using a scanning tunneling electron microscope...
...engines, there are no noxious emissions and no need for gasoline. Gas stations soon disappear, as do refineries and their occasional unhappy by-products, oil spills and groundwater pollution. Electric cars are easy on the ears since they make virtually no noise. Refueling? Drive up to a handy 220-volt electrical outlet, plug in and charge...