< font face =" arial " color =" red "> Wire carrying current to be measured .</ font >< font face =" arial " color =" green "> Spring providing restoring force </ font > This illustration is conceptual ; in a practical meter, the iron core is stationary, and front and rear spiral springs carry current to the coil, which is supported on a rectangular bobbin.

Of the previously unreleased songs, " Down to the Wire " features the New Orleans pianist Dr. John with Buffalo Springfield on an item from their shelved Stampede album ; " Love Is a Rose " was a minor hit for Linda Ronstadt in 1975 ; " Winterlong " received a cover by Pixies on the Neil Young tribute album from 1989, The Bridge ; and " Campaigner " is a Young song critical of Richard Nixon.

Wire is usually drawn of cylindrical form ; but it may be made of any desired section by varying the outline of the holes in the draw-plate through which it is passed in the process of manufacture.

Wire is often reduced to the desired diameter and properties by repeated drawing through progressively smaller dies, or traditionally holes in draw plates.

Wire is an English rock band, formed in London in October 1976 by Colin Newman ( vocals, guitar ), Graham Lewis ( bass, vocals ), Bruce Gilbert ( guitar ), and Robert Gotobed ( drums ).

* The Kansas Barbed Wire Museum in La Crosse, Kansas is the only museum in the world dedicated solely to barbed wire and the history of fencing.

Hawn is known for her roles in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Shampoo, Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, The First Wives Club, and Cactus Flower, for which she won the 1969 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Wire is versatile in its nature.

On Radio 3 there is Sunday evening drama and, in the slot reserved for experimental drama, The Wire.

* " Larry the Liquidator ", Other People's Money ( 1990 ) – A self-absorbed corporate raider " Larry the Liquidator " ( Danny DeVito ), sets his sights on New England Wire and Cable, a small-town business run by family patriarch Gregory Peck who is principally interested in protecting his employees and the town.

In March 2008, Business Wire reported " Janet Jackson is one of the top ten selling artists in the history of contemporary music ; ranked by Billboard magazine as the ninth most successful act in rock and roll history, and the second most successful female artist in pop music history.

Wire wrap is a technology used to assemble electronics.

Wire wrap is popular in telecommunications since it is one of the most secure ways to attach wires, and provides excellent and consistent data layer contact.

Wire wrap is one of the most repairable systems for assembling electronics.

* Welded Wire Mesh is a metal screen with 10 cm x 10 cm ( 4 inch ) openings.

Wire is versatile, and wire clothes hangers are often used as cheap sources of semi-tough wire, more available than baling wire for all sorts of home projects.

He even manages to have " his " stageplay Live Wire performed at the Hollywood Playhouse, although the script is actually a case of plagiarism, The Front Page in flimsy disguise ; strangely enough, no one except Manheim seems to notice.

Like a Bird on a Wire ( Wie ein Vogel auf dem Draht ) is a forty-minute television production featuring Brigitte Mira, the main actress in Fear eats the Soul, singing cabaret songs and love ballads from the 1940s and 1950s.

The title is borrowed from Leonard Cohen's song " Bird on the Wire ", with which the program ends.

A resource on the history of aerial tramways in the mining industry is " Riding the High Wire, Aerial Mine Tramways in the West ", by Robert A. Trennert, University Press of Colorado, 2001.

Wire with THHN insulation is commonly used in the alternating current ( AC ) electrical distribution systems of all types and sizes throughout North America, usually at voltage levels ( potential difference or electromotive force ) ranging from 110-600 volts.

Rad, Carlos and their friend Alexis befriend the Autobots, along with the Mini-Cons High Wire, Grindor and Sureshock ( known commonly as the street team minicons in the toyline ).

** Live Wire ( DC Comics ) or Garth Ranzz, more commonly known as Lightning Lad, a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes

Wire for the riveted rings was formed by either of two methods.

There was then a sharp decline in the number of manufacturing firms, as many were consolidated into larger companies, notably the American Steel and Wire Company, formed by the merging of Gates's and Washburn's and Ellwood's industries.

In the late 1830s, the Trail of Tears, over which many Cherokee and other tribes moved on their way to Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory reservations, formed part of the roadway that would later be the Wire Road.

Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh alternative rock band that was formed in 1986 in Blackwood, Gwent and consists of James Dean Bradfield ( lead vocals and lead guitar ), Nicky Wire ( bass guitar and lyrics ) and Sean Moore ( drums and percussion ).

With a US $ 500 loan, the couple formed James Industries ( originally James Spring & Wire Company ), had 400 Slinky units made by a local machine shop, handwrapped each in yellow paper, and priced them at $ 1 a piece.

Concertina wire or Dannert Wire is a type of barbed wire or razor wire that is formed in large coils which can be expanded like a concertina.

James formed a close relationship with three friends: his cousin Sean Moore, who lived with James and his family throughout their childhood after his own parents ' divorce, and future bandmates Nicky Wire ( real name Nicholas Jones ) and Richey James Edwards.

During 1995, with the licence application pending, the Wire FM management team had initially formed an alliance with Marcher Group to bid for Warrington.

Having left Ducks Deluxe in early 1975, Garvey formed a band called The Snakes with Slaughter and vocalist Robert Gotobed, who would later form the punk band, Wire.

Chicago's Naked Raygun, formed in 1981, has been seen as merging post-punk influences of bands such as Wire and Gang of Four with hardcore, while author Steven Blush notes the band's use of " oblique lyrics and stark post-punk melodies ".

Paul Wilmott formed Transformer, who recorded a cover of Wire's " Outdoor Miner ", which appeared on the Wire tribute album, Whore ( 1996 ), before making recordings under the name Lisp.

Wire clamps consist of a piece of heavy wire, typically steel, first bent into a tight U, then formed into a ring shape with one end overlapping the other, and finally the ends bent outwards and cut.

Gilbert and Lewis were members of Wire, and formed Dome during Wire's 1980 – 1984 hiatus.

Black Wire were an English indie rock band formed in Leeds, England.

Black Wire formed in January 2003, and played their first gig within a month of forming, at the Leeds club night Pigs.

Barb Wire was a superhero published by Comics Greatest World, an imprint of Dark Horse Comics.

The songs of London's Wire were characterized by sophisticated lyrics, minimalist arrangements, and extreme brevity.

This debut, released on German label Raster-Noton, was voted record of the year 2004 in the electronica category by British magazine The Wire.

Arthur C. Clarke published his first science fiction story, " Travel by Wire!

Inspired by the burgeoning UK punk scene, Wire are often cited as one of the more important rock groups of the 1970s and 1980s.

Chairs Missing followed in 1978, and found Wire stepping back from the stark minimalism of Pink Flag, with longer, more atmospheric songs and synthesizer parts added by producer Mike Thorne.

Guided By Voices ' Robert Pollard claimed that Wire was his favourite band, and that the fact that GBV's albums had so many songs was directly influenced by Wire's albums.

In Single Wire Earth Return ( SWER ) AC electrical distribution systems, costs are saved by using just a single high voltage conductor for the power grid, while routing the AC return current through the earth.

Throughout the height of barbed wire sales in the late 19th century, Washburn, Ellwood, Gates, and Haish competed with one another, but Ellwood and Gates eventually joined forces again to create the American Steel and Wire Company, later acquired by The U. S. Steel Corporation.

As detailed in " Down to the Wire ", by Gordon and Cohen, cited below, Reuters did extensive due diligence and expressed an interest in parts of the UPI service, but did not wish to maintain it in full.

The process of combining the core wire with the steel tape was invented by the current owner of Razor Wire International, Renne Cano.

Wire lines are frequently used as leaders to prevent the fishing line from being severed by toothy fish.

* Magnetic Flux through a Loop of Wire by Ernest Lee, Wolfram Demonstrations Project.

In February 2006, the Sun-Times worked to fill the void felt at the city's TV and radio stations by the demise of the old City News by starting its own 24-hour newswire, the STNG Wire.

It bears similarities to a series of installations performed by New Zealand and Detroit based artists Alastair Galbraith and Matt De Genaro, recorded on their 1998 record Wire Music and 2006 follow-up Long Wires in Dark Museums, Vol.