Visitors are admitted through an electric gate into a patio garden and then into the main house.

WSJ: Striking Gold in the Backyard

The property faced a four-lane highway, but Serenola was tucked behind a brick wall and a modest electric gate.

NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention

Brett Willberg, who runs an ice factory, says he has never bothered to fix the electric gate in front of his operation, which does not close.

ECONOMIST: Business in America

Constance would still be able to smell it later on, as she drove down the winding ramp for the last time, pulling away from the closing electric gate and the saluting security guard, onto the gritty ground floor and out into traffic, en route to .

NEWYORKER: Shauntrelle

The idea is to make the channel as thin as possible, allowing the electric field generated by the gate to penetrate the entire thing, thus improving the control that the gate is able to exert.

ECONOMIST: Transistors