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In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?
by Humphry Davy (Scientist, British , born in 1778) keywords: affinity, attempt, cause, chemical, electrical, energy, essential, evident, however, identical, knowledge, matter, may, our, present, property, relation, remote, speculate, state, sufficiently, useless , would The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
by Margaret Fuller (Critic, American , born in 1810) keywords: believe, electrical, function, genius, intuitive, movement, spiritual, tendency , women I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.
by Marc Garneau (Astronaut, Canadian , born in 1949) keywords: back, call, came, canadian, combat, education, electrical, engineer, engineering, further, get, navy, ph, served, systems, ten, wanted, went , years Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or a suitably placed steel magnet.
by Hermann von Helmholtz (Physicist, German , born in 1821) keywords: attracts, becomes, brought, copper, current, electrical, iron, magnet, magnetic, near, other, pieces, placed, spiral, steel, then, which , wire There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.
by Harriet Van Horne (Journalist, American , born in 1920) keywords: any, appliance, cleaner, days, electrical, entertainment, house, including, more, offer, possibilities, seems, set, television, than , vacuum Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
by Barbara Kingsolver (Novelist, American , born in 1955) keywords: electrical, glacier, heart, moves, pain, reaches, slowly, speed , truth During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
by Walter Kohn (Physicist, Austrian , born in 1923) keywords: canadian, company, developed, during, electrical, instruments, military, part-time, planes, school, small, summers, two, well, which, worked , year Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.
by Richard Neal (Politician, American , born in 1949) keywords: appliances, cords, dangers, deaths, electrical, extension, injuries, lightning, lines, many, power, prevented, through , understanding The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year.
by Richard Neal (Politician, American , born in 1949) keywords: billion, cared, cost, dollars, economy, electrical, estimated, hospitals, injuries, many, number, over, per, these, us , year I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.
by Gaylord Nelson (Politician, American , born in 1916) keywords: because, cities, combustion, disappear, electrical, engine, internal, mass, next, our, power, probably, streets, think, thirty, transportation, will , years These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries.
by John Perkins (Economist) keywords: basically, big, build, companies, countries, electrical, families, few, go, highways, just, ones, ports, serve, system, then, these, those, very, wealthiest, were , would Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
by Archibald Philip Primrosekeywords: audience, bear, effect, electrical, few, photography, printed, produced, record, speeches , which We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.
by Johannes Stark (Physicist , born in 1874) keywords: atom, circumstances, detached, electrical, electron, even, experience, learnt, ray, second, some, strikes, surface, third , through Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.
by David Ogden Stiers (Actor, American , born in 1942) keywords: because, change, cold, cut, electrical, every, film, goes, going, head, hear, never, off, print, something , time I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.
by Koichi Tanaka (Scientist, Japanese , born in 1959) keywords: always, because, been, building, child, chose, electrical, electricity, engineering, had, interested, involving, myself, projects, radios, reason, such, suppose , time It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.
by Polly Toynbee (Journalist, English , born in 1946) keywords: accurately, activity, asking, brain, degrees, electrical, happiness, joy, levels, measuring, now, observation, pain, possible, pretty, quantify, sublime, terrible , them I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
by Edgard Varese (Composer, American , born in 1883) keywords: adequate, am, any, conceive, electrical, handicapped, instruments, lack, more, music, now, old, want, which , write
