Word: watts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Brown has decided to have the first crew use the Pocock shell given by John Watt's father in the race on Saturday. The conditions today were poor, with rough water, and a strong south westerly wind. It was very hot on the river...
Plants, Lamps.. Plants are hard working members of society. Dr. John Morris Arthur of Boyce Thompson Institute, New York tried to fool them into working all night as well as all day by turning on 48 1,000 watt incandescent lamps. He fooled clover and buckwheat all of the time; lettuce and radish 17 hours of the time; tomatoes rebelled, died...
...kilowatt hour equals 1,000 watt hours. For example, an ordinary 50 watt lamp bulb consumes one kilowatt hour of electric energy for every 20 hours of burning...
...locomotive was a 50-watt radio transmitter, which got its power from the engine's headlight generator. A brass rail on the tender served as aerial. A mile back on the caboose was a wire antenna and inside a 50-watt transmitter energized by a generator which the caboose axles operated. Trainmen and engineer com- municated easily...
Jeffreys--Cahen, Westgate v. Ed. Warren--Jordan, Watt...