Electric guitars, most notably the Fender Stratocaster and Fender Telecaster, have been built with alder bodies since the 1950s.

Electric guitar amplifiers typically have built-in reverb and distortion, while acoustic guitar and keyboard amplifiers tend to only have built-in reverb.

Electric guitars have had a continuing profound influence on popular culture.

Electric guitars can have solid, semi-hollow, or hollow bodies, and produce little sound without amplification.

Promoting his third album Electric Ladyland, Jimi Hendrix said " the influence the psychedelics have on one is truly amazing, and I only wish more people appreciated this belief and genre ".

Electric locomotives, because they tend to be less technically complex than diesel-electric locomotives, are both easier and cheaper to maintain and have extremely long working lives, usually 40 to 50 years: the last unit of the Italian E626 class, introduced in 1928, was retired 71 years later, in 1999.

Electric charge is an inextricable property of matter, so it appeared that some form of matter was required to provide the alternating current that would seem to have to exist at any point along the propagation path of the wave.

There were also other companies that held the greatest market share in 1905 but at the same time did not have the competitive advantages of the companies like DuPont and General Electric.

( John Morton of Cleveland's Electric Eels may have been the first rock musician to wear a safety-pin-covered jacket.

Many science fiction works have received widespread critical acclaim including Childhood's End and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Combat rules have many options and take into account three types of energy for damage: Kinetic, Electric, and Radiation.

Electric buses, which use twin trolley poles ( one for live current, one for return ) but have wheels with tyres rolling on a hard surface rather than tracks, are called trolleybuses, trackless trolleys ( particularly in the Northeastern U. S .), or sometimes ( in the UK, as well as in Seattle and Vancouver ) simply trolleys.

The RAF's then-current jet bomber the English Electric Canberra, introduced in May 1951 and designed during the war, could only have reached the Soviet border and had a capacity of 6, 000 lb ( 2, 720 kg ).

Electric boats, with their limited range and performance, have tended to be used mostly on inland waterways, where their complete lack of local pollution is a significant advantage.

* Electric outboards and trolling motors have been available for some years at prices from about $ 100 ( US ) up to several thousand.

Although Sousaphones have a slightly more restricted range than their orchestral Tuba counterpart, generally they can all play the same music and usually have parts written in the bass clef and the indicated octave is played ( unlike Double Bass or Electric Bass that sound an octave lower than the indicated note.

The Electric Tokamak experiment is intended to have a

Previous years ' guests have included Roger Clyne, John Doe, Neko Case, Ike Reilly, Ryan Bingham, Vermillion Lies, Jason Molina and Magnolia Electric Co, Built To Spill, Brant Bjork and the Bros, Clem Snide, Gram Rabbit and The Bellrays.

Electric currents that oscillate at radio frequencies have special properties not shared by direct current or alternating current of lower frequencies.

Electric field lines for this mode have a longitudinal component and require line lengths of a half-wavelength or longer.

Electric motors have been used on submarines and electric boats and have been proposed for energy-efficient propulsion.

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.

The Essential Electric Light Orchestra artwork has been re-jigged to feature two different covers.

The Underground railway system had been developed and was owned by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL ) and the Metropolitan Railway.

English Electric Company continued to build the LEO III, and went on to build the faster LEO 360 and even faster LEO 326 models, which had been designed by the LEO team before the takeover.

* Record companies ( such as Victor, Brunswick and Columbia ) introduce an electrical recording process on their phonograph records in 1925 ( that had been developed by Western Electric ), resulting in a more lifelike sound.

Finally, the SILEX process, developed by Silex Systems in Australia, has recently been licensed to General Electric for the development of a pilot enrichment plant.

He had been assigned to work with General Electric at Schenectady, New York State, to develop a nuclear propulsion plant for destroyers, but in May 1946, through the efforts of his wartime boss, Rear Admiral Earle Mills, who became the head of the Navy's Bureau of Ships that same year, Rickover was finally sent to Oak Ridge as the deputy manager of the entire project, granting him access to all facilities, projects and reports.

In the early 1980s, structural welding flaws — whose nature and existence had been covered up by falsified inspection records — led to significant delays and expenses in the delivery of several submarines being built at the General Dynamics Electric Boat Division shipyard.

In late 2006, the foundation sent out a holiday card featuring a picture of Electric Cord ( 1961 ), a painting that had been missing since 1970 after being sent out to art restorer Daniel Goldreyer by the Leo Castelli Gallery.

In May, Black Waters, a British and Dominions Film Corporation promoted as the first UK all-talker, received its initial trade screening ; it had been shot completely in Hollywood with a Western Electric sound-on-film system.

As part of China's Golden Shield Project, several U. S. corporations such as IBM, General Electric, and Honeywell have been working closely with the Chinese government to install millions of surveillance cameras throughout China, along with advanced video analytics and facial recognition software, which will identify and track individuals everywhere they go.

Sun Electric have been active and influential within techno, trance, ambient and IDM genres.

Such iconic and diverse shows as Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Saturday Night Live, The Uncle Floyd Show, Captain Kangaroo, Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and TV hosts such as David Letterman and Craig Ferguson have been influenced by Kovacs.

Cypress Elementary School also provided the name for new Pacific Electric Railway station on Walker Street at Lincoln Avenue when the Santa Ana Line was completed in 1906, as " Waterville " had already been used elsewhere in the system.

A series-or serial-hybrid vehicle has also been referred to as an Extended Range Electric Vehicle or Range-Extended Electric Vehicle ( EREV / REEV ); however, range extension can be accomplished with either series or parallel hybrid layouts.

* Automatic Wickie, Electric wicket-keeper, or electronic wicket-keeper, automatic wicket-keeper, or auto-wiky-a rule which states that if a batsman " snicks ", or edges, the ball so it goes to where a wicket-keeper might have been able to catch him out, then the batsman is out, regardless of the fact that he was not physically caught out.

Electric folk has also been influential in those parts of the world with close cultural connections to Britain, such as the U. S. and Canada.

Napier had been taken over by English Electric in 1942.

The Westinghouse Electric Corporation acquired the network in 1995 and eventually adopted the name of the company it had bought to become CBS Corporation.

Making use of CHUM's facilities and production teams, the channel has produced many specialty musical and variety programs, including the long-running dance program Electric Circus and the late-1980s game show Test Pattern, and it adopted some programs originally created for CHUM such as City Limits, which featured alternative videos.

Both methods were adopted for use in cloud seeding during 1946 while working for the General Electric Corporation in the state of New York.

The ' Elevated Electric ' proved to be a technical and financial success, but was to be short-lived, since the London and South Western Railway had adopted the third-rail system ; and, after grouping, its mileage far exceeded that of the LB & SCR.

Michael Reagan, adopted son of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, contends that Attorney General of the United States Robert F. Kennedy pressured GE to cancel The General Electric Theater or at least to fire Reagan as the host if the program were to continue.

Electric Charlie and his wife adopted Margaret from an orphanage when she was 18 years old.

Though General Electric sponsored community lighting competitions during the 1920s, it would take until the mid 1950s for the use of such lights to be adopted by average households.

In 1969, General Electric adopted the name Borazon as its trademark for the material.

Electric telegraph adopted for communication between offices and other police forces in 1861 and in 1878, a horse drawn van was introduced for conveying prisoners.

The analytical technique was adopted and advanced by engineers at General Electric and Westinghouse and after World War II it was an accepted method for asymmetric fault analysis.

The reference implementation of channel I / O is that of the IBM System / 360 family of mainframes and its successors, but similar implementations have been adopted by other mainframe vendors, such as Control Data, Bull ( General Electric / Honeywell ) and Unisys.

In November 2007, MK Electric, the largest manufacturer of consumer electrical fitments in the UK, adopted EnOcean technology for a new range of wireless switches.