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Gleason was astonished, but he was also savvy enough to know that something was happening in his city as folkies began going electric and writing their own material.
These account for 10% of the total, including Faraday's electric motor (1821), waterproof material (1823), Aspdin's cement (1824), George Stephenson's passenger railway (1825) and the lawnmower by Edwin Beard Budding (1827).
These use an electric current to heat and ablate a material, producing a charged gas that can then be accelerated in one direction in a magnetic field to push the cubesat in the other direction.
Tungsten, as a material, was much used in the filaments of incandescent electric light bulbs.
The material also contains negatively charged ions, which can be moved with electric pulses to different parts of the surface.
Made of a material known as polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), this belt produces an electric charge whenever low-speed airflow passes over it and causes it to vibrate -- a result of that vaunted piezoelectric effect.
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Mr. JAY DUDLEY (Portland General Electric attorney): We've responded with about 2, 600 pages of material, almost a whole banker's box of material back to the city.
The most common batteries are made up of negative and positive halves (the anode and the cathode), a material to separate them, and "current collector" layers at top and bottom to gather up the electric charges moving through.
The Swach's cartridge, a key component of the system, resembles Edison's electric bulb and is made up of a composite of rice-husk ash (a highly porous material derived out of paddy husk) and fine particles of nano-silver, which inhibits bacteria growth.
Earlier this year it launched the first of what it promises will be a range of electric cars that will undercut those made by American and European producers, in part by using a novel material in the batteries' electrodes.
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