< 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 commonly formed by drawing the metal through a hole in a die or draw plate.

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 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.

These bands were often musically experimental, like certain New Wave acts ; defining them as " post-punk " was a sound that tended to be less pop and more dark and abrasive — sometimes verging on the atonal, as with Subway Sect and Wire — and an anti-establishment posture directly related to punk's.

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

Wire are arguably a definitive art punk or post-punk ensemble, mostly due to their richly detailed and atmospheric sound, often obscure lyrical themes, and, to a lesser extent, their Situationist political stance.

Edwards joined the band on guitar and often made contributions to lyrics with Wire, designing record sleeves and other artwork, and driving the band to and from gigs.

The album was met with mixed reviews, with critics often comparing their sound with the likes of Pixies and Wire.

Other musicians to have used the flag, include Nicky Wire of the Manic Street Preachers, who will often drape the Welsh flag over amps when playing live, and Cerys Matthews who has worn the image on her clothes, while classical singer Katherine Jenkins has taken the flag on stage during live performances.

More often than not he was miming on the guitar during early live performances, but was, along with bassist Nicky Wire, principal lyricist.

As a low-cost knife, the Wire Jack was often distributed as part of an advertising campaign, and because of its low cost was popular with Boy Scouts.

In an article published in The Washington Post, Anmol Chaddha and William Julius Wilson explain why Harvard chose The Wire as curriculum material for their course on urban inequality: " Though scholars know that deindustrialization, crime and prison, and the education system are deeply intertwined, they must often give focused attention to just one subject in relative isolation, at the expense of others.

The Interstate Wire Act of 1961, often called the Federal Wire Act, is a United States federal law prohibiting the operation of certain types of betting businesses in the United States.

Some called it the " Old English Broken-Haired Black and Tan Terrier ," some the " Old English Wire Haired Black and Tan ," some the " Broken-Haired Black and Tan ," and some just " Black and Tan " -- a color-description that has been used about as often as " white dog " or " yellow hound ".

And there are weightier poems, such as ' The Wire ', ' The Muir ' or ' The Big Music ', which entirely contradict the cosy persona which he sometimes adopted, and which is more often projected onto him.

Wire wrapping was used for splices and for finishing cable ends in suspension bridge wires and other wire rope rigging, usually with a smaller diameter wire wrapped around a larger wire or bundle of wires.

** Stubs Iron Wire Gauge, which corresponds to the diameter of a hypodermic needle

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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.