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.

When the top and bottom contacts were connected by a wire, an electric current flowed through the voltaic pile and the connecting wire.

Sarah is chased by an unseen pursuer and, thinking she will be able to escape through a window into another room, falls into a huge pile of barbed wire.

Standard equipment on the DB5 included reclining seats, wool pile carpets, electric windows, twin fuel tanks, chrome wire wheels, oil cooler, magnesium-alloy body built to superleggera patent technique, full leather trim in the cabin and even a fire extinguisher.

The match ended after Abyss pushed the interfering Daffney off the top rope through a barbed-wire board ( giving her a legit concussion ), chokeslammed the enraged Dr. Stevie onto a pile of thumbtacks and slammed Foley onto the barbed wire board.

A pipe cleaner is made of two lengths of wire, called the core, twisted together trapping short lengths of fibre between them, called the pile.

Despising luxuries of any sort for a soldier, he slept on a pile of hay with his cloak as blanket.

" Johnson is a particular favorite for the bottom of the pile because of his impeachment, despite his acquittal, and also due to his mishandling of Reconstruction policy, his inept dealings with his Cabinet and Congress, his bristling personality and his sense of self-importance.

In operation, new green bricks, along with roofing bricks, are stacked at one end of the brick pile ; cooled finished bricks are removed from the other end for transport.

Bellarmine's books bear the stamp of their period ; the effort for literary elegance ( so-called " maraviglia ") had given place to a desire to pile up as much material as possible, to embrace the whole field of human knowledge, and incorporate it into theology.

Observation of amounts, and consideration of different materials as a pile is built over time, can quickly achieve a workable technique for the individual situation.

In addition to the traditional compost pile, various approaches have been developed to handle different composting processes, ingredients, locations, and applications for the composted product.

Traditionally, composting was to pile organic materials until the next planting season, at which time the materials would have decayed enough to be ready for use in the soil.

Cairn is a term used mainly in the English-speaking world for a man-made pile ( or stack ) of stones.

This successful initiation of a chain-reacting pile was important not only for its help in assessing the properties of fission — needed for understanding the internal workings of an atomic bomb — but also because it would serve as a pilot plant for the massive reactors which would be created in Hanford, Washington, which would then be used to produce the plutonium needed for the bombs used at the Trinity site and Nagasaki.

Scott Spiegel's humorous influence can be seen throughout the film, perhaps most prominently in certain visual jokes ; for instance, when Ash traps his rogue hand under a pile of books, on top is A Farewell to Arms.

He also pushed the insert into areas of visual sensuality inaccessible to D. W. Griffith, with such images as a Close Up of a silver-plated revolver nestling in a pile of silken sexy ribbons in a drawer in Old Wives for New ( 1918 ).

But once mixed, for better results in a gun it was discovered that the final product should be in the form of individual, dense, grains ( originally the size of corn ) which allow the fire to spread quickly from grain to grain, much as straw or twigs catch fire more quickly than a pile of sawdust.

The pile shuffle does not provide any randomization of the cards, since for any number of piles the right number of repetitions will bring the deck back to its original state, though this can be improved slightly by dealing to the piles in a random order each circuit.

Thomas Gold a professor of astronomy suggested a " garbage theory " for the origin of life, the theory says that life on Earth might have spread from a pile of waste products accidentally dumped on Earth long ago by extraterrestrials.

To execute the latter option, the athlete bends one of his legs and goes down on that knee while the other leg remains only partially bent ; this is presumably to allow for greater mobility in case the " pile driver " does not work.

In addition, pile driving is often used to check for stability in varying soil types such as clay, sand, gravels, fractured shale, etc.

Spontaneous combustion is the self-ignition of a mass, for example, a pile of oily rags.

He sacrificed his life for the sake of his people and they poured a stone pile over his grave which later turned into the Ural Mountains.

On March 20, 1800, Volta wrote to the London Royal Society to describe the technique for producing electric current using his pile.

They may on the one hand neutralise with respect to one another, so that snarl and smile rhyme, both ending, and Child's Hill is in danger of being mistaken for Charles Hill ; or they may go further into a fivefold neutralisation with the one just mentioned, so that pal, pale, foul, snarl and pile all end in.

They range from the Soviet Embassy on Sixteenth Street, a gray shuttered pile suggesting a funeral-accessories display house, to what Congressman Rooney has called `` that monstrosity on Thirty-fourth Street '', the modern cement-and-glass chancery of the Belgians.

His verses have not come down to us through a manuscript tradition-generations of scribes copying an author's collected works, such as delivered intact into the modern age four entire books of Pindar's odes-but haphazardly, in quotes from ancient scholars and commentators whose own works have chanced to survive, and in the tattered remnants of papyri uncovered from an ancient rubbish pile at Oxyrhynchus and other locations in Egypt: sources that modern scholars have studied and correlated exhaustively, adding little by little to the world's store of poetic fragments.

The Teufelsberg is in fact an artificial hill composed of a pile of rubble from the ruins of World War II.

This insulation of snow often keeps the water from freezing in and around the food pile, providing a location where beavers can breathe when outside their lodge.

* das Gepäck, " luggage, baggage " from der Pack, " pack, bundle, pile "

Detective Comics Inc. soon launched a fourth title, Action Comics, and the premiere of which introduced Superman ( a character with which Wheeler-Nicholson had no direct involvement ; editor Vin Sullivan chose to run the feature after Sheldon Mayer rescued it from the slush pile ).

Alessandro Volta's battery, or voltaic pile, of 1800, made from alternating layers of zinc and copper, provided scientists with a more reliable source of electrical energy than the electrostatic machines previously used.

That water could be decomposed by the current from a voltaic pile was discovered by Nicholson and Carlisle in 1800, a process now known as electrolysis.

As the firemen toss the books from the woman's upstairs bedroom down to the living room floor and spray the pile with kerosene, Montag accidentally reads a line in one of her books and hides it away before any of his coworkers can see.

Investigating the mantises, which are named Kamacuras ( Gimantis in the English-dubbed version ), the scientists find the monstrous insects digging an egg out from under a pile of earth.

This habit of raiding graves caused the villagers of Komodo to move their graves from sandy to clay ground and pile rocks on top of them to deter the lizards.

Hindu shuffle differs from stripping in that all the action is in the hand taking the cards, whereas in stripping, the action is performed by the hand with the original deck, giving the cards to the resulting pile.

Capote picked the Bradbury manuscript from a slush pile, which led to it getting published in the magazine.

Remains of Bronze Age pile dwellings from as early as 3800 BC have been found in the shallow areas of many lakes.

Specialized devices such as steam hammers and steam pile drivers are dependent on steam supplied from a separate boiler.

Service on the BMT Broadway Line was also disrupted because the tracks from the Montague Street Tunnel run adjacent to the World Trade Center and there were concerns that train movements could cause unsafe settling of the debris pile.

The Romans ' inherited ' the torsion powered Ballista, which had by now spread to several cities around the Mediterranean, all of which became Roman spoils of war in time, including one from Pergamum, which was depicted among a pile of ' trophy ' weapons in relief on a balustrade.

But the confusion evident in this passage, which also places the bulk of " Skythian " activity during 269 a year earlier, under Gallienus, may stem from a later effort to pile all possible disasters in this year into the reign of the former Emperor.

It is hypothesized that Toutatis formed from two originally separate bodies which coalesced at some point, with the resultant asteroid being compared to a " rubble pile ".