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The first jolt of electric current was designed to cause immediate unconsciousness and brain death ; the second one was designed to cause fatal damage to the vital organs.
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Because of game-related sports coverage, this was the first major earthquake in the United States of America to have its initial jolt broadcast live on television.
He received a sudden jolt of notoriety and soon critics began questioning his first name.
For example, on April 22, 1983, the first post-Furman prisoner to be executed by Alabama, John Louis Evans was hit with the first jolt of electricity, which lasted 30 seconds.
In Dunkins ’ execution the first jolt of electricity only knocked him unconscious.
: " At 8: 30 p. m. the first jolt of 1, 900 volts of electricity passed through Mr. Evans's body.
The first part of the word is generally taken to be identical with the verb to jaunt, now only used in the sense of to go on a short pleasure excursion, but in its earliest uses meaning to make a horse caracole or prance, hence to jolt or bump up and down.
first and electric
The giant electric signs and marquees were lit up for the first time since blackout regulations had been instituted, and the atmosphere was alive with the feeling that victory was just around the corner.
The first mention of an electric plant in Manchester seems to be one installed in Reuben Colvin's and Houghton's gristmill on the West Branch in Factory Point.
* 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
* 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D. C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U. S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
* 1914 – In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
The relation between electric current, magnetic fields and physical forces was first noted by Hans Christian Ørsted who, in 1820, observed a compass needle was deflected from pointing North when a current flowed in an adjacent wire.
In the 1930s, musician and inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, developed the first electric string bass in its modern form, a fretted instrument designed to be held and played horizontally.
In the 1950s, Leo Fender, with the help of his employee George Fullerton, developed the first mass-produced electric bass.
Following Fender's lead, Gibson released the first short scale violin-shaped electric bass with extendable end pin in 1953, allowing it to be played upright or horizontally.
( London's first deep-level tube railway, the City & South London Railway, had earlier also been built for cable haulage but had been converted to electric traction before opening in 1890.
* 1898 – Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of in a Jeantaud electric car.
In 1951, Leo Fender independently released his Precision Bass, the first commercially successful electric bass guitar.
The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical power supply.
One of the first to discover and publish a link between man-made electric current and magnetism was Romagnosi, who in 1802 noticed that connecting a wire across a voltaic pile deflected a nearby compass needle.
For electric utilities, it is the first process in the delivery of electricity to consumers.
This association gave rise to the English words " electric " and " electricity ", which made their first appearance in print in Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica of 1646.
In 1663 the German physicist Otto von Guericke created the first electric generator, which produced static electricity by applying friction in the machine.
The energy efficiency of electric lighting has increased radically since the first demonstration of arc lamps and the incandescent light bulb of the 19th century.
The first one views the electric and magnetic fields as three-dimensional vector fields.
Michael Faraday, in his electrolysis experiments, was the first to note the discrete nature of electric charge.
The first electric synthesizer was invented in 1876 by Elisha Gray.
With numerous people experimenting with electrical instruments in the 1920s and early 1930s, there are many claimants to have been the first to invent an electric guitar.
The first electric guitars used in jazz were hollow archtop acoustic guitar bodies with electromagnetic transducers.
Early electric guitar manufacturers include: Rickenbacker ( first called Ro-Pat-In ) in 1932, Dobro in 1933, National, AudioVox and Volu-tone in 1934, Vega, Epiphone ( Electrophone and Electar ), and Gibson in 1935 and many others by 1936.
The first recordings using the electric guitar were by Hawaiian style players, in 1933.
first and current
One of the first moves made after a cabinet decision was to request the United States to establish a full-fledged military assistance group instead of the current civilian body.
A bridge was first completed here in 1887, replaced by another structure in 1949, and subsequently replaced with the current bridge which was completed in 2008.
They settled first in the Ancient Pueblo areas for a few hundred years, then migrated to their current location.
Peter Lombard ( died 1160 ) is the first writer known to have used the term, which did not become the usual name in the West till towards the end of the twelfth century, and never became current in the East.
Previously, as related in the first reference cited above, Faraday had used the more straightforward term " eisode " ( the doorway where the current enters ).
According to him, while the first two visions ( the alter-globalism and the anti-globalism ) represent the reconstructed forms of old and new left ideologies, respectively, in the context of current globalization, only the third one has shown the capacity to respond more effectively to the intellectual requirements of today ’ s global complexities.
In the U. S., current plans call for the existing USAF bomber fleet to remain in service until the mid-to-late 2020s, with the first possible replacements becoming operational in 2018.
In order to save time, a second deck, preferably distinct from the first, is employed so that as the first is being dealt, the second is being shuffled by the partner of the current dealer.
Charlton was an established player by the time the next season was fully underway, which saw United, as current League champions, become the first English team to compete in the European Cup.
The main Breakfast presenters have also appeared on the channel since it was first launched as a simulcast programme in 2000, with the current presenters being Bill Turnbull, Susanna Reid ( Mondays to Wednesdays ), Louise Minchin and Charlie Stayt ( Thursdays, Ftidays and weekends ).
The current highest price is £ 20, 350, which was paid for the first issue of The Dandy on 7 September 2004.
The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building.
* Mittlere Brücke ( current structure built 1905, original bridge built 1225 as the first bridge to cross the Rhine River )
" The Blue Angels ' first public demonstration also netted the team its first trophy, which sits on display at the team's current home at NAS Pensacola.
The first Marine Corps pilot, Capt Chuck Hiett, joined the team and they relocated to their current home of NAS Pensacola in the winter of 1954.
The first official World Chess Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, claimed his title in 1886 ; the current World Champion is Viswanathan Anand.
If, however, the court finds that the current dispute is fundamentally distinct from all previous cases ( called a " matter of first impression "), judges have the authority and duty to make law by creating precedent.
For their first two seasons, the Bengals played at Nippert Stadium which is the current home of the University of Cincinnati Bearcats.
The first match at this site, now known as the club's current ground The Valley, was in September 1919.
The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as " Checagou " was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir written about the time.
Previously, as related in the first reference cited above, Faraday had used the more straightforward term " exode " ( the doorway where the current exits ).
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