Electric motors are ubiquitous, being found in applications as diverse as industrial fans, blowers and pumps, machine tools, household appliances, power tools, and disk drives.

Electric motors are found in applications as diverse as industrial fans, blowers and pumps, machine tools, household appliances, power tools, and disk drives.

Booster set 836 / 2D had been designed by English Electric for use in Class 71 and this was retained in the rebuild, although weight considerations meant that the flywheel assembly, separate auxiliary generator and traction motor blowers were removed ( the latter leading to the decision to downrate the traction motors ).

Electric generation is controlled by the state-owned Nukissiorfiit.

The incorporation of the assets of Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America ( including David Sarnoff ,) the Pan-American Telegraph Company, and those already controlled by the United States Navy led to a new publicly held company formed by General Electric ( which owned a controlling interest ) on 17 October 1919.

The Piccadilly line began as the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway ( GNP & BR ), one of several railways controlled by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL ), whose chief director was Charles Tyson Yerkes, although he died before any of his schemes came to fruition.

Electric stop actions can be controlled at the console by stop knobs, or by tilting tablets or rocker tabs which sit on a hinge, and activate or deactivate an electrical circuit, depending on the direction in which they are pressed.

British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., was a controlled UK subsidiary of the General Electric Company in the USA.

Electric motors often achieve 90 % energy conversion efficiency over the full range of speeds and power output and can be precisely controlled.

The Burnley Electric Lighting Order was granted in 1890, giving the Burnley Corporation ( which already controlled the water supply and the making and sale of gas ) a monopoly on generating and selling electricity in the town.

In Los Angeles the Los Angeles Railway ( Yellow Lines ) was controlled by NCL but not Pacific Electric Railway ( Red lines )

On May 1, 1942, Odakyu merged with the Tokyo-Yokohama Electric Railway company ( now Tokyu Corporation ), which controlled all private railway services west and south of Tokyo by the end of World War II.

It is also the break between two different types of safeworking ; Greensborough to Eltham is controlled by Miniature Electric Staff, whilst Eltham to Hurstbridge is controlled by Train Staff and Ticket.

This can be through direct mechanical contact as in recirculating ball or rack and pinion steering gears, without or with the assistance of hydraulic power steering, HPS, or as in some modern production cars with the assistance of computer controlled motors, known as Electric Power Steering.

Also, in theory, trains could terminate anywhere on the sections controlled by Electric Staff or Staff and Ticket, but in practice the only place trains on these sections terminate short of the terminus is Eltham.

In late 2007 the safeworking on the line was altered, with the Electric Staff and Train Staff and Ticket sections replaced by Automatic and Track Control signalling controlled remotely from Frankston station.

From the 1930s the company was controlled by British Electric Traction with a large Great Western Railway shareholding.

The B & PCR was controlled by the Metropolitan District Railway ( MDR, now the District line ) from 1898, and was sold in 1901 to Charles Yerkes ' Metropolitan District Electric Traction Company, which built the station to provide power to the MDR.

The smaller but more elaborate eastern section of the pedway connecting the Illinois Center buildings, Hyatt Regency, Fairmont Hotel, Swissôtel and ( later ) Aqua, was not directly accessible from the main ( Loop-centric ) pedway network, although each linked to one end of the Metra Electric Line rail platforms, controlled by turnstiles and inaccessible without paying the fare.

Control of trains on the single track was controlled with the Electric Staff system until 1967, when the Automatic and Track Control ( ATC ) system was provided.

The company was a subsidiary of Ottawa Electric Railway Company, in turn controlled by Ahearn & Soper.

In 1900, it became a subsidiary of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL ) controlled by American financier Charles Yerkes.

One of the most significant advancements in design of plastics signs is the so-called trans-illuminated billboard, now being produced by several large sign manufacturers such as Advance Neon Sign Co., Los Angeles, and Industrial Electric Inc., New Orleans, La..

As used by Industrial Electric Inc., the film panels are printed one at a time, as are 24-sheet posters.

Recently Industrial Electric unveiled another new development made possible by modern plastic materials -- a revolving spectacular sign.

The paradox implicit in the whole affair is shown by the demand of the government, after the conviction, that General Electric sign a wide-open consent decree that it would not reduce prices so low as to compete seriously with its fellows.

The abbreviation " andy ", coined as a pejorative by writer Philip K. Dick in his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, has seen some further usage, such as within the TV series Total Recall 2070.

When AA was ported to the English Electric KDF9 computer, the character set was changed to ISO and that compiler has been recovered from an old paper tape by the Edinburgh Computer History Project and is available online, as is a high-quality scan of the original Edinburgh version of the Atlas Autocode manual.

Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human ( 1995 ) is a novel by K. W. Jeter, and a continuation of both the film Blade Runner, and the novel upon which it was based, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Electric lights were in use by 1888.

* Electric Chair at Sing Sing, a 1900 photograph by William M. Vander Weyde, accompanied by a poem by Jared Carter.

Early models used a drive mechanism made by Alps Electric, distinguishable by its push-down drive door.

* Electric power transmission in big citiesIt is difficult to transmit power by overhead cables in big cities, so underground cables are used.

CANDU reactors were first developed in the late 1950s and 1960s by a partnership between Atomic Energy of Canada Limited ( AECL ), the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario ( now Ontario Power Generation ), Canadian General Electric ( now GE Canada ), and other companies.

The Compactron is a 12-pin vacuum tube family introduced in 1961 by General Electric in Owensboro, Kentucky to compete with transistorized electronics during the solid state transition.

Electric field lines of two opposing charges separated by a finite distance.

* Electric Dipole Potential by Stephen Wolfram and Energy Density of a Magnetic Dipole by Franz Krafft.

It was developed by Western Electric and first used by the Bell System in commerce, using that name as a registered trademark.

* The Electric Cough-Syrup Acid Test by Jim Hogshire from Harper's

Concerning information processing, DARPA made great progress, initially through its support of the development of time-sharing ( all modern operating systems rely on concepts invented for the Multics system, developed by a cooperation among Bell Labs, General Electric and MIT, which DARPA supported by funding Project MAC at MIT with an initial two-million-dollar grant ).

Internally, Alpha processors were also identified by EV numbers, EV officially standing for " Extended VAX " but having an alternative humorous meaning of " Electric Vlasic ", giving homage to the Electric Pickle experiment at Western Research Lab.