- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Electrical Quotes
From alternating current to brain signals, quotes on electricity.
These quotes trace electrical ideas across very different fields: alternating current as the most promising branch of investigation, brain cells trading electrical signals, and the electrical battery listed among inventions several people reached independently. Read our Activity quotes.
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- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.
- Estimated
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- Nov 07, 2020
The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.
- Brains
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have about 100 million cells interconnected in our brains. They communicate with one another through electrical signals.
- Cords
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- Nov 07, 2020
Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes.
- Engineering
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began my studies in a sound and electrical engineering program, but I ultimately created a major called 'Ritual Art.'
- Election
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans were outraged by Russia's interference in our presidential election, but a wider threat is Russia's doctrine of hybrid warfare, which includes cybersabotage of critical American infrastructure from nuclear plants to electrical grids.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
On Mir, the lights kept going out because it had developed so many electrical problems.
- Color
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For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.
- Nov 07, 2020