Rising pollution, global warming and shrinking fossil fuel reserves have focused world wide attention on how engines generate electrical and mechanical power.

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When I gave a TEDGlobal talk on femto photography in June, I began with a reference to Doc Edgerton, a very popular MIT professor of electrical engineering who, in 1964, wowed the world with an image of a bullet in midair, having just passed through an apple.

CNN: A camera that can see around corners

South Africa can thus offer low-cost electrical power, at the fourth-cheapest rate in the world.

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Juran, an electrical engineer, had also gone to Japan after the second world war and begun to teach middle managers about quality.

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Until a couple of years ago, America was the world's biggest consumer of copper, used in electrical wiring and the like.

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And at his new employer, which tests and repairs power-generation systems world-wide, Mr. King says he applies many of the same electrical skills he used during his 10 years in the Navy.

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Toshiba Corporation is a world leader and innovator in high technology, a diversified manufacturer and marketer of advanced electronic and electrical products.

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