#electrical

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

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So the reason I was struck again and again was because of my overwhelmingly positive energy. Funny, I'd always thought of myself as a pessimist. ↗

— Jennifer Bosworth

#energy #funny #irony #lightning #sarcasm

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. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

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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. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#because #been #building #child #chose

Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#appliances #burn #byrne #circuit #electrical

Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning. ↗

— Richard Neal

#cords #dangers #deaths #electrical #extension

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. ↗

— Richard Neal

#cared #cost #dollars #economy #electrical

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. ↗

— Archibald Primrose

#bear #effect #electrical #few #photography

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#glacier #heart #moves #pain #reaches

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? ↗

— Humphry Davy

#attempt #cause #chemical #electrical #energy