< 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 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.

Manscape is the seventh studio album by the British post-punk group Wire.

He is currently working on the seventh album, " Lipstick and Barbed Wire ", originally called " Strangers In A Strange Love ".

Robert Smith has described how, though not a Wire fan, seeing the group live influenced The Cure's sound after their first album.

More recently, Fischerspooner ( who covered " The 15th " on their album # 1 ), britpop bands like Elastica and Menswe @ r and post-punk revival bands like Bloc Party, Futureheads, Blacklist, and Franz Ferdinand have cited Wire as an influence.

The song A Mutual Friend by the band Wire from the album 154 uses a cor anglais.

41 Degrees N 93 Degrees W " for the tribute album Whore: Tribute to Wire.

At one point in the spring of 1976 in Miami the album promised to be the third attempt at a CSNY reunion, but when Crosby and Nash were bound to return to LA to finish Whistling Down the Wire, Stills and Young wiped the vocal contributions of the other pair off the master tape.

Along with the Banshees, early Cure gigs from 1978-1979 supporting post-punk bands such as Wire and Joy Division also influenced Robert Smith's shift in musical direction from The Cure's 1979 album Three Imaginary Boys to 1980's sophomore effort Seventeen Seconds.

In October 2006 The Who released their first album in 26 years, Endless Wire.

In 2006, they released their first studio album of new material in twenty-four years, Endless Wire, leading some fans and critics to say that the highly acclaimed artistic tension within the Who lay between the two principals Daltrey and Townshend.

The title had previously been suggested as a working title for the album by Nicky Wire.

In late 2005, both Bradfield and Wire announced that they intended to release solo material prior to a new album by the band.

The Lightning Seeds ' song " Waiting for Today to Happen ", from their fifth album, Dizzy Heights ( 1996 ), was written by Nicky Wire and Ian Broudie.

James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire contributed an original song, " The Girl from Tiger Bay ", to Shirley Bassey's 2009 studio album, The Performance.

The Who's 2006 album Endless Wire includes the song " God Speaks of Marty Robbins ".

" The album includes Earle's version of Tom Waits ' song " Way Down in the Hole " which was the theme song for the fifth season of The Wire in which Earle appeared as the character Walon.

Guitarist Rob Kendrick and bassist Pete Wright signed on for Trapeze's 1974 album Hot Wire, followed by a second self-titled album, Trapeze, in 1976.

* Chris Bowsher, founding member of the band Radical Dance Faction, was a witness to the events and wrote " Hungerford Poem " which appears on the band's early album Hot On The Wire.

A new studio album, No Thyself, was released worldwide by Wire Sound on 24 October 2011 and the band embarked on a UK tour in November 2011.

Released in October 2006, the album was named Endless Wire.

The soundtrack to the piece was written by renowned German musician Hans-Joachim Roedelius and was released the same year as Theatreworks, an album that was chosen as album of the month by music magazine The Wire.

The only work to come out of this period was two covers: We Have All the Time in the World ( Louis Armstrong ) on the 1993 Peace Together compilation ; and a Wire cover on the 1996 tribute album Whore.

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