Even use your portable electric or gas grill in the winter, inside.

The electric bass was easily amplified with its built-in pickups, easily portable ( less than a foot longer than an electric guitar ), and easier to play in tune, thanks to the metal frets.

A few electric and electronic instruments from the 1960s and subsequent decades have also done this ; Vox's electronic organs of the 1960s, Farfisa's FAST portable organs, Hohner's Clavinet L, one version of Korg's Poly-800 synthesizer and Roland's digital harpsichords.

Evolution of design, including the use of more portable resonators, has led to many variations, such as the dan bau ( Vietnam ) and gopichand ( India ), and more recently, the " electric one-string ", which amplifies the sound using a pickup.

Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera ( 1912 ) features a portable movie camera, not invented until 1923, and Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive ( 1922 ) was published two years before the Central Railroad of New Jersey placed the first diesel electric locomotive into service.

The introduction of the electric motor ( and electric distribution networks ) in the 1880s made possible the self-powered stationary and portable tools we know today.

As Henry Ford adapted to the manufacturing needs of World War II, he requested that A. H. Peterson, a tool manufacturer, create a lighter electric drill that was more portable for his assembly line workers.

Rechargeable batteries are used for automobile starters, portable consumer devices, light vehicles ( such as motorized wheelchairs, golf carts, electric bicycles, and electric forklifts ), tools, and uninterruptible power supplies.

Practical portable electric megaphones had to await the development of microelectronics which followed the invention of the transistor in 1947.

As well as utilitarian flashlights, novelty, toy and ornamental portable electric lights have been made in a myriad of shapes ; in the 1890s, one of the earliest portable battery light applications was a type of novelty porcelain tie pin with a concealed bulb and battery.

In 1917, Black & Decker invented the familiar portable electric drill, obtaining a patent for a hand-held drill combining a pistol grip and trigger switch.

Basic combat engineering tools include safe use of: driving tools and chopping tools ( hammers, mauls, sledges, screwdriver, and bits ); cutting tools and smoothing tools ( saws, chisels, planes, files and rasps, brush-cutting tools, miscellaneous cutting tools ); drilling tools, boring tools, and countersinking tools ; measuring tools, leveling tools and layout tools ( rules, tapes, marking tools, levels, plumb bobs, squares ); gripping tools, prying tools and twisting tools ( pliers, wrenches, bars ); holding tools, raising tools and grinding tools ( vises, clamps, jacks, grinders, and oilstones ); timber handling tools and climbing tools ; digging tools ( shovels, posthole diggers, picks, and mattocks ); portable power tools and trailer-mounted tools ( electric tool trailer and generator, portable power tools ); miscellaneous tools.

As with electric vs. acoustic guitars, the sound of most electric pianos differs considerably from that of an acoustic instrument, and the electric piano has thus acquired a musical identity of its own, far beyond that of simply being a portable, amplified piano.

Pokémon Pikachu, also known as in Japan, is a series of portable Pokémon digital pets featuring the famous yellow electric Pokémon, Pikachu.

It is carefully controlled by light weight portable electric break feeding fences run on mains power that can be easily repositioned.

In it they found blankets, pillows, a blue steel, 9mm, 14-shot Browning Automatic Pistol, binoculars, a woman's umbrella, a tape recorder, a portable radio with police band, an electric shaver, photographic equipment, and a 1972 copy of a Writer's Yearbook.

Some electric pencil sharpeners are powered by batteries rather than being plugged into a building's electrical system, making them more portable.

Initially home appliances were standalone or portable devices in a kitchen, along with other sinks and the water heater, but with the development of the wall-to-wall countertop and standardized height cabinets, dishwashers evolved into standardized size and shape appliances first integrated with the sink, and then underneath the kitchen countertop as a modular unit.

On February 7, 1956, an accident occurred on the construction site when a portable heater used to cure concrete exploded in the stadium's basement.

This can be in the form of a clear enclosed bin sitting over a hotpad, or even a portable heater pointed at the bin.

Larger models may include a water heater, space heating and air conditioning, a portable toilet and even an internal shower.

The small chemical heater obviates the need for a portable stove and fuel, however the high ( full ) water content of MREs eliminates most weight advantage versus dehydrated food.

A salamander heater is any of a variety of portable forced-air or convection heaters, often kerosene-fueled, used in ventilated areas for worksite comfort.

Scheu of Scheu Manufacturing Company, a leading producer of temporary portable space heating equipment, developed the modern Salamander heater, to provide warmth, thereby allowing construction crews to work in inclement weather.

* Salamander heater, a portable heater

The nation's number one picnic treat is the skinless frankfurter -- toasted over a bonfire on the beach or, more sedately, charcoal broiled on a portable grill.

A portable kerosene range designed for use aboard boats is sold with a special railing to keep it from moving with the motion of the vessel.

Amateur astronomy, also called backyard astronomy and stargazing, is a hobby whose participants enjoy watching the sky, and the plethora of objects found in it, mainly with portable telescopes and binoculars.

Each assembly language is specific to a particular computer architecture, in contrast to most high-level programming languages, which are generally portable across multiple systems.

The principle it works on, the constant of simultaneity, is analogous in some ways to gravity ... One point has to be fixed, on a planet of certain mass, but the other end is portable.

* 1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.

A portable hand-held clamp-on ammeter is a common tool for maintenance of industrial and commercial electrical equipment, which is temporarily clipped over a wire to measure current.

This type of certification is portable across locations ( for example, different corporations that use that software ), but not across other products.

This is intended to be portable to all places a certified professional might work.

*. NET Compact Framework is Microsoft's commercial implementation of the CLI for portable devices and Xbox 360.

An electronic calculator is a small, portable, often inexpensive electronic device used to perform both basic and complex operations of arithmetic.

Terrestrial Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting ( ISDB-T ) is a system designed to provide good reception to fix receivers and also portable or mobile receivers.

A database is not generally portable across different DBMS, but different DBMSs can inter-operate to some degree by using standards like SQL and ODBC together to support a single application built over more than one database.

A database built with one DBMS is not portable to another DBMS ( i. e., the other DBMS cannot run it ).

#* A remote sensor ( e. g. based on infrared or radio waves ) can be triggered by a portable remote control, or is installed inside a vehicle.

The processor is also used in some of the AlphaSmart line of portable word processors.

" It is an ETSI standard for digital portable phones ( cordless home telephones ), commonly used for domestic or corporate purposes.

The maximum allowed power for portable equipment as well as base stations is 250 mW.

A portable device radiates an average of about 10 mW during a call as it is only using one of 24 time slots to transmit.

Solid-state generation ( without moving parts ) is of particular interest in portable applications.

Electrochemical electricity generation is also important in portable and mobile applications.

Forth became very popular in the 1980s because it was well suited to the small microcomputers of that time, as it is compact and portable.