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Electric Brae (novel) Electric Brae: A Modern Romance was the first novel by Scottish writer Andrew Greig. The title is a reference to Electric Brae in Ayrshire, where a natural optical illusion makes it seem that things can roll uphill.
Electric carpet The Electric Carpet is the Archetypical example of device used in hazing, and is particularly associated (erroneously) with Freemasonry. It is a mat through which electric current can be run and people are forced to stand or walk on it.
Electric catfish Electric catfish (family Malapteruridae) is the common name of several species of freshwater catfish with the ability to produce an electric shock of up to 350 volts using electroplaques of an electric organ. Electric catfish are found in several parts of Africa.
Electric cello The electric cello is a type of cello that relies on electronic amplification (rather than acoustic resonance) to produce sound. Many electric cellos have bodies modeled after acoustic cellos, while others abandon the design completely, opting for a totally new body shape, or having little or no body at all.
Electric City of Music Instructor Electric City of Music Instructor is German group Music Instructor's second album, released in 1998. The album's style is electro/hip hop, unlike their first album The World of Music Instructor, which was mostly techno/happy hardcore.
Electric City Trolley Museum The Electric City Trolley Museum is located in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, adjacent to the Steamtown National Historic Site and operates restored trolleys an interurbans on former lines of the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad, now owned by Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, and operated by the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad.
Electric Counterpoint Electric Counterpoint is a minimalistic composition written by American composer Steve Reich. It was first recorded by guitarist Pat Metheny in 1987 and released together with Reich's Different Trains, performed by the Kronos Quartet, on Nonesuch's 979 176-2.
Electric discourse Electric Discourse is a youth political discussion television show on BLAB TV (Local-access television) in Sarasota, Florida. It is a non-profit program designed to encourage political and social involvement of young people, and to discuss those issues from a youth perspective.
Electric Doom Synthesis Electric Doom Synthesis was Beherit's second dark ambient and final full length album. It featured ritualistic music, pitchshifted spoken word vocals, and occasional guitars, all much in the spirit of black metal.
Electric Dreams Electric Dreams is a 1984 movie set in San Francisco, California that depicts a love triangle between a man, a woman, and a home computer. It stars Lenny Von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen and Bud Cort (voice) and was directed by Steve Barron.
Electric Dylan controversy The electric Dylan controversy was the incident at the Newport Folk Festival where folk singer Bob Dylan first "went electric", by playing alongside an electric blues band in concert. This seeming rejection of 'what had gone before' made Dylan unpopular in parts of the folk community, alienating some fans, and is considered to have deeply affected both folk and rock and roll.
Electric effective resistance Electric effective resistance is the parameter of a passive two-pole electric circuit or its element, which is equal to the relation of the effective power, which is absorbing in this element, to the square of the effective value of an electric current in it.
Electric eye Electric eye is a somewhat dated term used to describe a simple electrical means of sensing something. An example is the door safety system used on garage door openers that use a light transmitter and receiver at the bottom of the door to prevent closing if there is any obstruction in the way that breaks the light beam.
Electric Eels (band) The Electric Eels were an early glam rock band that was active between 1972 and 1975. They formed in Cleveland, Ohio, during a period in which punk rock was not yet distinguished as a style of music, but glam rock was.
Electric field screening Screening is the damping of electric fields caused by the presence of mobile charge carriers. It is an important part of the behavior of charge-carrying fluids, such as ionized gases (classical plasmas) and conduction electrons in metals.
Electric football Electric football is a tabletop football game played on a metal vibrating field. It resembles foosball, in that the game is played by controlling miniature figures, but controls are electrical rather than manual.
Electric Factory The Electric Factory is a concert venue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The current site, which is an actual converted electric factory, can hold 2500; there is also a standing room-only venue located to the north at 421 N.
Electric Fantastic Sound Electric Fantastic Sound is a record label formed in 2005 by Johan Billing primarily to release music that could be labeled "electric" in one way or another without focusing on any one special genre. Based on the foundations of the J-Axel Industrual Art & Interiör UnLtd label started in 1989 Electric Fantastic Sound combines historic experience with the new forms of distribution the internet and netlabels stands for.
Electric Fence Electric Fence (or eFence) is a memory debugger written by Bruce Perens. It consists of a library which a programmer can link into his or her code to override the C standard library memory management functions.
Electric Flag The Electric Flag, formed in 1967, were a blues rock group led by guitarist Mike Bloomfield and featuring multi-instrumental blues legend Al Kooper and Stephen Stills of CSNY fame. Bloomfield formed Electric Flag after his stint with The Butterfield Blues Band.
Electric Frankenstein Electric Frankenstein is an American band from Whippany, New Jersey, that fuses elements of punk rock and heavy metal to form a high-octane rocknroll sound. The song "Annie's Grave" by this band was featured in the "Tony Hawk's Underground" video game.
Electric glow discharge Electric glow discharge is a type of plasma formed by passing a current at 100 V to several kV through a gas, usually argon or another noble gas. It is found in products such as fluorescent lights and plasma-screen televisions, and is used in plasma physics and analytical chemistry.
Electric grand piano An electric grand piano is a particular type of piano manufactured and marketed by Yamaha, Kawai and Helpinstill during the 1970s and 1980s, although experimental instruments of similar type were made as early as the late 1920s. Unlike a digital piano, an electric grand has hammers and strings.
Electric guitar An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses electronic pickups to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into electrical current. The signal may be electrically altered to achieve various tonal effects prior to being fed into an amplifier, which produces the final sound which can be either an electrical sound or an acoustic sound.
Electric Guitar (Fluke song) "Electric Guitar" is the seventh single by the English electronic music band Fluke. Taken from the album, Six Wheels on My Wagon the track was released in many formats but did not generate the same amount of interest as the previous single, Slid.
Electric heating An electric heater is an electrical appliance that converts electrical energy into heat. The heating element inside every electric heater is simply an electrical resistor, and works on the principle of Joule heating: an electric current flowing through a resistor converts electrical energy into heat energy.
Electric Hellfire Club The Electric Hellfire Club is an industrial metal band mixing elements of glam metal, techno, gothic rock, psychedelia and experimental noise. The band's music, described as "electro evil," contains numerous Satanic themes, along with celebrations of evil, violence, sex, devil worship, and mass murder.
Electric Honey (label) Electric Honey is a record label run by students studying an HNC in Music Industry Management at Stow College in Glasgow, Scotland. Every year they choose an act to sign and release a record as part of their course.
Electric chair The electric chair is an execution method in which the person being executed is strapped to a chair and electrocuted through electrodes placed on the body. This execution method is used mostly in the United States of America and has become a symbol of the death penalty there, although its use is now in decline.
Electric charge Electric charge is a fundamental conserved property of some subatomic particles, which determines their electromagnetic interaction. Electrically charged matter is influenced by, and produces, electromagnetic fields.
Electric inductance Electric inductance (inductive electric reactance) is the electric reactance to electric current in the change regimes, which is attributed by the electric self-inductivity of the element of an electric circuit and for harmonic conventionally-stationary regimes is equal to the product of this electric inductivity and the angle frequency.
Electric instrument An electric instrument (which, in the broadest sense, includes both electrically amplified acoustic instruments and electronic musical instruments) is one in which a loudspeaker is used as the main sound generator.
Electric light Most of the industrialized world is lit by electric lights, which are used both at night and to provide additional light during the daytime. These lights are normally powered by the electric grid, but some run on local generators, and emergency generators serve as backups in hospitals and other locations where a loss of power could be catastrophic.
Electric locomotive An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electric motors and drawing power from an external source (through overhead lines or third rail), or from an on-board storage device such as a battery or a flywheel energy storage system. Locomotives with on-board prime movers, such as Diesel engines or gas turbines, are not classed as electric locomotives when they use electric motors to turn the wheels, as the electric generator/motor combination is only considered to be the power transmission system.
Electric Lady Studios Electric Lady Studios, at 52 West 8th Street, in New York City's Greenwich Village, is a recording studio originally built by the legendary Jimi Hendrix and designed by John Storyk in 1970. A "who's who" of artists have recorded music there.
Electric Light Orchestra discography Below is the complete Electric Light Orchestra discography including rare imports, videos, hit singles and Jeff Lynne's as yet only solo album. ELOs back catalogue is unusual in that their compilation albums far outweigh their studio output in number, owing to the large number of hit singles primarily written by Lynne.
Electric match In pyrotechnics, an electric match is a device to ignite the end of a fuse under control of an externally applied electrical current. They are widely used in professional fireworks displays to control firing from a panel of manually operated switches, or from a computer interface.
Electric muse Here follows my contribution to The Electric Muse - the story of folk into rock (Eyre Methuen, 1975), edited by Dave Laing, with contributions also from Laing, the late Robert Shelton and Robin Denselow of the BBC and The Guardian. It attracted little attention when the book was published, and when the book was published in Germany, this section was completely omitted.
Electric piano An electric piano (e-piano) is an electric musical instrument whose popularity was at its greatest during the 1960s and 1970s. Many models were designed to replace a (heavy) piano on stage, while others were originally conceived for use in school or college piano labs for the simultaneous tuition of several students using headphones.
Electric platform truck Electric platform trucks are electric powered trucks with a large flat surface for holding objects to be transported. Some are also called warehouse utility vehicles, electric trolley carts, or powered platform truck vehicles.
Electric potential energy The electric potential energy U_E of a body is its potential energy due to electric effects, neglecting other forces (such as gravity). It is defined very simply in terms of the body's charge and the electric potential phi at the location of the body:
Electric Pencil Electric Pencil, released in 1976, was the first word processor for home computers. It was developed by a programmer named Michael Shrayer who apparently wanted to document his own software on the same machines he was programming.
Electric Picnic Electric Picnic is a music festival which has been staged since 2004 in Stradbally Hall, Stradbally, County Laois in the Republic of Ireland. Stradbally is NOT located in Dublin, as it is rather lazily referred to on some artists' websites.
Electric Pink Electric Pink was the final Jade Tree Records recording for The Promise Ring, release in early 2000 featuring four new tracks. "Strictly Television" was recorded during the Very Emergency sessions, and sounds more like the band's older sound, while the other three sounds continued the progression in sound the band was making.
Electric Power Research Institute The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) conducts research on issues of interest to the electric power industry in the USA. EPRI is an independent, nonprofit organization funded by the electric utility industry.
Electric Power Steering Electric power steering (EPS or EPAS) is designed to use an electric motor to provide directional control to the driver of a vehicle. Most EPS systems have variable assist, which allows for more assistance as the speed of a vehicle decreases and less assistance from the system during high-speed situations.
Electric President Electric President is a Jacksonville, Florida musical duo started in 2003 after Alex Kane's former band Helicopter Project, for whom he played bass, split up. He and Ben Cooper, the other member of Electric President, wrote songs together and recorded them over the course of a few weeks.
Electric ray Electric rays (order Torpediniformes) are fish that have a rounded body and a pair of organs capable of producing an electric discharge, varying from as little as 8 volts to up to 220 volts depending on the species, which is used to stun or kill prey. There are 69 species in four families.
Electric Reliability Council of Texas The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) formed in 1970, as the successor to the Texas Interconected System (TIS). TIS originally formed in 1941 when several power companies banded together to provide their excess generation capacity to serve industrial loads on the Gulf Coast supporting the US war effort for World War 2.
Electric shock An electric shock can occur upon contact of a human or animal body with any source of voltage high enough to cause sufficient current flow through the muscles or nerves. The minimum detectable current in humans is thought to be about 1 milliampere (mA).
Electric shovel Electric shovel is one of the Powered types shovels used in the modern opencast mines for the excavation. There are different types of powered shovels like, electric shovels which operate by using the electricity and Hydraulic shovels etc.
Electric sitar An electric sitar is in fact a kind of electric guitar designed to mimic the sound of the traditional South Asian instrument, the sitar. Depending on the manufacturer and model, these instruments bear varying degrees of resemblance to the traditional sitar.
Electric susceptibility The electric susceptibility χe of a dielectric material is a measure of how easily it polarizes in response to an electric field. This, in turn, determines the electric permittivity of the material and thus influences many other phenomena in that medium, from the capacitance of capacitors to the speed of light.
Electric Samurai (The Noble Savage) Electric Samurai (The Noble Savage) is a 2004 album by Tomoyasu Hotei. In addition to a few original tracks, the album includes much of Hotei's work for the soundtracks of the films Samurai Fiction and Shin Jinginaki Tatakai ("Another Battle").
Electric Sheep Electric Sheep is a distributed computing project for generating, downloading, and playing movies of fractal flames while the screen saver is running, created by Scott Draves. The parameters that generate these movies, called sheep, can be created in a few ways: they can be created and submitted by members of the electricsheep mailing list, members of the mailing list can download the parameters of existing sheep and tweak them, or sheep can be mated together automatically by the server or manually by server admins (nicknamed shepherds).
Electric Sheep (band) Electric Sheep was a garage band that included Adam Jones (future Tool guitarist) and Tom Morello (future Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave guitarist). The band has the distinction, shared by The Grateful Dead, MC5, Sonic Youth and Radiohead, of having two members that made the Rolling Stone list of the 100 greatest guitarists of rock history (though The Allman Brothers Band has them beat with three).
Electric Soldier Porygon is the thirty-eighth and a banned episode of the original Pokémon anime and was aired on Japanese television in December 16, 1997. It is notable for using visual effects that caused seizures in a number of Japanese viewers.
Electric train supply Electric Train Supply or ETS is the supply of electricity which powers electrical equipment on a train. It is usually provided by the locomotive, and used to power auxiliary systems on the rolling stock, usually coaches.
Electric upright bass The electric upright bass (abbreviated EUB and sometimes also called stick bass) is an electronically amplified version of the double bass that has a minimal or 'skeleton' body. These features greatly reduce the size, weight and in some cases, the cost of the instrument whilst retaining some of the features of a double bass.
Electric utility An electric utility is a company (often a public utility) that engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity for sale generally in a regulated market. The electrical utility industry is a major provider of energy in most countries.
Electric Universe Electric Universe is a psychedelic trance project from Germany formed by Boris Blenn and Michael Dressler in 1991. Their first EP release, Solar Energy was an instant hit with the underground trance scene and is often credited with putting the Spirit Zone Recordings label at the forefront of psychedelic trance early on.
Electric vehicle An electric vehicle, or EV, is a vehicle with one or more electric motors for propulsion. The motion may be provided either by wheels or propellers driven by rotary motors, or in the case of tracked vehicles, by linear motors.
Electric vehicle conversion An electric vehicle conversion is the modification of a conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) driven vehicle to battery electric propulsion, creating a battery electric vehicle. In some cases the vehicle may be built by the converter, or assembled from a kit car, and vehicles of this type are also noted below.
Electric vehicle production This article outlines current projects, plans, productions for meeting ever increasing demand for electric vehicles. Included is each major automotive manufacturer's proposals, specifying range, battery type, motor design (in wheel/CVT), base price and production date due.
Electric violin An electric violin is a violin equipped with an electronic output of its sound. The term can refer to a standard violin fitted with an electric pickup of some type, or to an instrument purposely made to be electrified with built-in pickups, usually with a solid body.
Electric Vehicle The Electric Vehicle was an American automobile manufactured only in 1899. An electric cab, it was widely used in New York City; the company pioneered the use of pressed steel for wheels, and its cars featured front-wheel drive and brakes and rear-wheel steering.
Electric water boiler An electric water boiler, electric water heater, or electric water urn is a consumer electronics small appliance used for boiling water and maintaining it at a constant temperature. It is typically used in households to provide hot water at all times for human drinking or for brewing tea.
Electric yellow cichlid The electric yellow cichlid, Labidochromis caeruleus, is a freshwater perciform fish, a cichlid. It is also known as lemon yellow lab, the blue streak hap, the electric yellow African, and is called the yellow prince in the Philippines.
Electric Youth (song) "Electric Youth" is a the second single from the Debbie Gibson album of the same name. Issued as a single in the Spring of 1989, it became one of her most famous songs and just missed the top ten in both the U.
Electrical alternans Electrical alternans is an electrocardiographic phenomenon of alternation of QRS complex amplitude or axis between beats. It is seen in cardiac tamponade and is thought to be related to changes in the ventricular electrical axis due to fluid in the pericardium.
Electrical Audio Electrical Audio is a recording company founded by Steve Albini in 1997. It operates two recording studios in Chicago, Illinois, and has been influential in independent music through its recording philosophy and large number of recordings.
Electrical bonding Electrical bonding and the Earthing system of the mains supply are two different systems. Bonding refers to the fact that in a building served with electricity it is normal for safety reasons to connect all metal objects such as pipes together to the mains earth to form an equipotential zone.
Electrical bus An electrical bus (sometimes spelled buss) is a physical electrical interface where many devices share the same electric connection. This allows signals to be transferred between devices (allowing information or power to be shared).
Electrical capacitance tomography Electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) is a method for determination of the dielectric permittivity distribution in the interior of an object from external capacitance measurements. It is a close relative of electrical impedance tomography and is proposed as a method for industrial process monitoring, although it has yet to see widespread use.
Electrical conduction system of the heart The normal electrical conduction in the heart allows the impulse that is generated by the sinoatrial node (SA node) of the heart to be propagated to (and stimulate) the myocardium (Cardiac muscle). After myocardium is stimulated, it contracts.
Electrical conductivity Electrical conductivity or specific conductivity is a measure of a material's ability to conduct an electric current. When an electrical potential difference is placed across a conductor, its movable charges flow, giving rise to an electric current.
Electrical connector An electrical connector is a device for joining electrical circuits together. The connection may be temporary, as for portable equipment, or may require a tool for assembly and removal, or may be a permanent electrical joint between two wires or devices.
Electrical CAD Electrical CAD refers to software packages which allow to create and manage electrical schematics. Advanced packages will not only manage electrical schematics, but also integrate functionalities such as: cabinet and panel, lay-outs, terminals management, etc.
Electrical discharge machining Electrical discharge machining (or EDM) is a machining method primarily used for hard metals or those that would be impossible to machine with traditional techniques. One critical limitation, however, is that EDM only works with materials that are electrically conductive.
Electrical double layer The electrical double layer describes the variation of electric potential near a surface, and has a large bearing on the behaviour of colloids and other surfaces in contact with solutions. The analogue in a plasma is the double layer.
Electrical efficiency The efficiency of an entity (a device, component, or system) in electronics and electrical engineering is defined as useful power output divided by the total electrical power consumed (a fractional expression).
Electrical element An electric circuit, or electrical network, consists of electrical elements or components connected by conductors. An electrical component is any component in the generation, transmission, distribution, or consumption of electric power.
Electrical engineering Electrical engineering (sometimes referred to as electrical and electronic engineering) is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century with the commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical power supply.
Electrical engineering (terminology) The precise meaning of the term electrical engineering is not universally agreed upon. In some parts of the world, it is considered to be the most general of the electricity-related engineering disciplines, with electronics engineering being a subfield.
Electrical Equipment in Hazardous Areas Domestic electrical equipment in British homes is made and tested to a British Standard. The aim of the testing is to ensure that the equipment is fairly robust and has no exposed parts that can cause harm to the user.
Electrical filament An electrical filament is a thread of metal, usually tungsten, which is used to convert electricity into heat and light for the incandescent light bulb as made in 1878 by Joseph Wilson Swan, among others. The first successful light bulb filaments were made of carbon (from bamboo), only later replaced with tungsten.
Electrical generator An electrical generator is a device that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy, generally using electromagnetic induction. The source of mechanical energy may be a reciprocating or turbine steam engine, water falling through a turbine or waterwheel, an internal combustion engine, a wind turbine, a hand crank, or any other source of mechanical energy.
Electrical characteristics of a dynamic loudspeaker A dynamic loudspeaker's electrical characteristics are expressed as a curve, representing the loudspeaker's electrical impedance versus frequency. A loudspeaker is an electro-mechanical transducer that uses a voice coil rigidly connected to the diaphragm or cone.
Electrical impedance tomography Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT), is a medical imaging technique in which an image of the conductivity or permittivity of part of the body is inferred from surface electrical measurements. Typically conducting electrodes are attached to the skin of the subject and small alternating currents applied to some or all of the electrodes.
Electrical lengthening One understands by electric lengthening the modification of an aerial which is shorter than the whole-number multiple of the quarter of the radiated wavelength, by suitable electronic device without changing the length of the aerial in such a way that it corresponds electrically to the next whole-number multiples of the quarter of the used wavelength. Basically a lengthening is only possible to the next whole-number multiples of the quarter of the radiated wavelength.
Electrical mobility When a charged particle in a gas or liquid is acted upon by a uniform electric field, it will be accelerated until it reaches a constant limiting velocity. The "electrical mobility" of the particle is defined as the ratio of this limiting velocity to the magnitude of the field.
Electrical overload An electrical overload is a situation where an electrical machine or system is subjected to a greater load than it was designed for. This can be caused by short circuit, by incorrect installation, or by misuse such as running a high-powered appliance off a low-power extension cable.
Electrical power industry Electric power, often known as power or electricity, involves the production and delivery of electrical energy through in sufficient quantities to areas that need electricity. Many households and businesses need access to electricity, especially in developed nations, the demand being scarcer in developing nations.
Electrical quackery Electricity has long been thought to be an elemental life-force. Early experiments by Galvani showed that touching an electrically charged scalpel to an exposed nerve in the leg of a dead frog would cause the leg to kick as if the frog were still alive.
Electrical resistivity tomography Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) is a geophysical technique for imaging sub-surfaces structures from electrical measurements made at the surface, or by electrodes in one or more boreholes. It is closely related to the medical imaging technique electrical impedance tomography, and mathematically is the same inverse problem.
Electrical resonance Electrical resonance occurs in an electric circuit at a particular resonant frequency when the impedance between the input and output of the circuit is at a minimum (or when the transfer function is at a maximum). Often this happens when the impedance between the input and output of the circuit is zero and when the transfer function equals one.
Electrical sensitivity Electrical sensitivity (ES), sometimes also called electrosensitivity or electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS), is a condition in which a person reports physical and / or psychological symptoms which appear to be aggravated by electric or magnetic fields or other electromagnetic waves at exposure levels tolerated by the general public. It is a matter of ongoing controversy as to whether there is a direct physical link between EMF exposure and the symptoms experienced by sufferers, as no specific test currently exists.
Electrical shortening One understands by electric shortening the modification of an aerial which is longer than the a whole-number multiple of the quarter of the radiated wavelength, by suitable electronic device without changing the length of the aerial in such a way that it corresponds electrically to the previous whole-number multiples of the quarter of the used wavelength. Basically a shortening is only possible to the last whole-number multiples of the quarter of the radiated wavelength.
Electrical steel Electrical steel, also called silicon electrical steel, silicon steel or transformer steel, is a type of specialty steel that contains relatively high amounts of silicon, 3 to 4.5%, in order to produce certain magnetic properties, such as low core loss and high permeability.
Electrical synapse An electrical synapse is a mechanical and electrically conductive link between two abutting neurons that is formed at a narrow gap between the pre- and postsynaptic cells known as a gap junction. At gap junctions, cells approach within about 3.
Electric carpet The Electric Carpet is the Archetypical example of device used in hazing, and is particularly associated (erroneously) with Freemasonry. It is a mat through which electric current can be run and people are forced to stand or walk on it.
Electric catfish Electric catfish (family Malapteruridae) is the common name of several species of freshwater catfish with the ability to produce an electric shock of up to 350 volts using electroplaques of an electric organ. Electric catfish are found in several parts of Africa.
Electric cello The electric cello is a type of cello that relies on electronic amplification (rather than acoustic resonance) to produce sound. Many electric cellos have bodies modeled after acoustic cellos, while others abandon the design completely, opting for a totally new body shape, or having little or no body at all.
Electric City of Music Instructor Electric City of Music Instructor is German group Music Instructor's second album, released in 1998. The album's style is electro/hip hop, unlike their first album The World of Music Instructor, which was mostly techno/happy hardcore.
Electric City Trolley Museum The Electric City Trolley Museum is located in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, adjacent to the Steamtown National Historic Site and operates restored trolleys an interurbans on former lines of the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad, now owned by Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, and operated by the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad.
Electric Counterpoint Electric Counterpoint is a minimalistic composition written by American composer Steve Reich. It was first recorded by guitarist Pat Metheny in 1987 and released together with Reich's Different Trains, performed by the Kronos Quartet, on Nonesuch's 979 176-2.
Electric discourse Electric Discourse is a youth political discussion television show on BLAB TV (Local-access television) in Sarasota, Florida. It is a non-profit program designed to encourage political and social involvement of young people, and to discuss those issues from a youth perspective.
Electric Doom Synthesis Electric Doom Synthesis was Beherit's second dark ambient and final full length album. It featured ritualistic music, pitchshifted spoken word vocals, and occasional guitars, all much in the spirit of black metal.
Electric Dreams Electric Dreams is a 1984 movie set in San Francisco, California that depicts a love triangle between a man, a woman, and a home computer. It stars Lenny Von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen and Bud Cort (voice) and was directed by Steve Barron.
Electric Dylan controversy The electric Dylan controversy was the incident at the Newport Folk Festival where folk singer Bob Dylan first "went electric", by playing alongside an electric blues band in concert. This seeming rejection of 'what had gone before' made Dylan unpopular in parts of the folk community, alienating some fans, and is considered to have deeply affected both folk and rock and roll.
Electric effective resistance Electric effective resistance is the parameter of a passive two-pole electric circuit or its element, which is equal to the relation of the effective power, which is absorbing in this element, to the square of the effective value of an electric current in it.
Electric eye Electric eye is a somewhat dated term used to describe a simple electrical means of sensing something. An example is the door safety system used on garage door openers that use a light transmitter and receiver at the bottom of the door to prevent closing if there is any obstruction in the way that breaks the light beam.
Electric Eels (band) The Electric Eels were an early glam rock band that was active between 1972 and 1975. They formed in Cleveland, Ohio, during a period in which punk rock was not yet distinguished as a style of music, but glam rock was.
Electric field screening Screening is the damping of electric fields caused by the presence of mobile charge carriers. It is an important part of the behavior of charge-carrying fluids, such as ionized gases (classical plasmas) and conduction electrons in metals.
Electric football Electric football is a tabletop football game played on a metal vibrating field. It resembles foosball, in that the game is played by controlling miniature figures, but controls are electrical rather than manual.
Electric Factory The Electric Factory is a concert venue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The current site, which is an actual converted electric factory, can hold 2500; there is also a standing room-only venue located to the north at 421 N.
Electric Fantastic Sound Electric Fantastic Sound is a record label formed in 2005 by Johan Billing primarily to release music that could be labeled "electric" in one way or another without focusing on any one special genre. Based on the foundations of the J-Axel Industrual Art & Interiör UnLtd label started in 1989 Electric Fantastic Sound combines historic experience with the new forms of distribution the internet and netlabels stands for.
Electric Fence Electric Fence (or eFence) is a memory debugger written by Bruce Perens. It consists of a library which a programmer can link into his or her code to override the C standard library memory management functions.
Electric Flag The Electric Flag, formed in 1967, were a blues rock group led by guitarist Mike Bloomfield and featuring multi-instrumental blues legend Al Kooper and Stephen Stills of CSNY fame. Bloomfield formed Electric Flag after his stint with The Butterfield Blues Band.
Electric Frankenstein Electric Frankenstein is an American band from Whippany, New Jersey, that fuses elements of punk rock and heavy metal to form a high-octane rocknroll sound. The song "Annie's Grave" by this band was featured in the "Tony Hawk's Underground" video game.
Electric glow discharge Electric glow discharge is a type of plasma formed by passing a current at 100 V to several kV through a gas, usually argon or another noble gas. It is found in products such as fluorescent lights and plasma-screen televisions, and is used in plasma physics and analytical chemistry.
Electric grand piano An electric grand piano is a particular type of piano manufactured and marketed by Yamaha, Kawai and Helpinstill during the 1970s and 1980s, although experimental instruments of similar type were made as early as the late 1920s. Unlike a digital piano, an electric grand has hammers and strings.
Electric guitar An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses electronic pickups to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into electrical current. The signal may be electrically altered to achieve various tonal effects prior to being fed into an amplifier, which produces the final sound which can be either an electrical sound or an acoustic sound.
Electric Guitar (Fluke song) "Electric Guitar" is the seventh single by the English electronic music band Fluke. Taken from the album, Six Wheels on My Wagon the track was released in many formats but did not generate the same amount of interest as the previous single, Slid.
Electric heating An electric heater is an electrical appliance that converts electrical energy into heat. The heating element inside every electric heater is simply an electrical resistor, and works on the principle of Joule heating: an electric current flowing through a resistor converts electrical energy into heat energy.
Electric Hellfire Club The Electric Hellfire Club is an industrial metal band mixing elements of glam metal, techno, gothic rock, psychedelia and experimental noise. The band's music, described as "electro evil," contains numerous Satanic themes, along with celebrations of evil, violence, sex, devil worship, and mass murder.
Electric Honey (label) Electric Honey is a record label run by students studying an HNC in Music Industry Management at Stow College in Glasgow, Scotland. Every year they choose an act to sign and release a record as part of their course.
Electric chair The electric chair is an execution method in which the person being executed is strapped to a chair and electrocuted through electrodes placed on the body. This execution method is used mostly in the United States of America and has become a symbol of the death penalty there, although its use is now in decline.
Electric charge Electric charge is a fundamental conserved property of some subatomic particles, which determines their electromagnetic interaction. Electrically charged matter is influenced by, and produces, electromagnetic fields.
Electric inductance Electric inductance (inductive electric reactance) is the electric reactance to electric current in the change regimes, which is attributed by the electric self-inductivity of the element of an electric circuit and for harmonic conventionally-stationary regimes is equal to the product of this electric inductivity and the angle frequency.
Electric instrument An electric instrument (which, in the broadest sense, includes both electrically amplified acoustic instruments and electronic musical instruments) is one in which a loudspeaker is used as the main sound generator.
Electric light Most of the industrialized world is lit by electric lights, which are used both at night and to provide additional light during the daytime. These lights are normally powered by the electric grid, but some run on local generators, and emergency generators serve as backups in hospitals and other locations where a loss of power could be catastrophic.
Electric locomotive An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electric motors and drawing power from an external source (through overhead lines or third rail), or from an on-board storage device such as a battery or a flywheel energy storage system. Locomotives with on-board prime movers, such as Diesel engines or gas turbines, are not classed as electric locomotives when they use electric motors to turn the wheels, as the electric generator/motor combination is only considered to be the power transmission system.
Electric Lady Studios Electric Lady Studios, at 52 West 8th Street, in New York City's Greenwich Village, is a recording studio originally built by the legendary Jimi Hendrix and designed by John Storyk in 1970. A "who's who" of artists have recorded music there.
Electric Light Orchestra discography Below is the complete Electric Light Orchestra discography including rare imports, videos, hit singles and Jeff Lynne's as yet only solo album. ELOs back catalogue is unusual in that their compilation albums far outweigh their studio output in number, owing to the large number of hit singles primarily written by Lynne.
Electric match In pyrotechnics, an electric match is a device to ignite the end of a fuse under control of an externally applied electrical current. They are widely used in professional fireworks displays to control firing from a panel of manually operated switches, or from a computer interface.
Electric muse Here follows my contribution to The Electric Muse - the story of folk into rock (Eyre Methuen, 1975), edited by Dave Laing, with contributions also from Laing, the late Robert Shelton and Robin Denselow of the BBC and The Guardian. It attracted little attention when the book was published, and when the book was published in Germany, this section was completely omitted.
Electric piano An electric piano (e-piano) is an electric musical instrument whose popularity was at its greatest during the 1960s and 1970s. Many models were designed to replace a (heavy) piano on stage, while others were originally conceived for use in school or college piano labs for the simultaneous tuition of several students using headphones.
Electric platform truck Electric platform trucks are electric powered trucks with a large flat surface for holding objects to be transported. Some are also called warehouse utility vehicles, electric trolley carts, or powered platform truck vehicles.
Electric potential energy The electric potential energy U_E of a body is its potential energy due to electric effects, neglecting other forces (such as gravity). It is defined very simply in terms of the body's charge and the electric potential phi at the location of the body:
Electric Pencil Electric Pencil, released in 1976, was the first word processor for home computers. It was developed by a programmer named Michael Shrayer who apparently wanted to document his own software on the same machines he was programming.
Electric Picnic Electric Picnic is a music festival which has been staged since 2004 in Stradbally Hall, Stradbally, County Laois in the Republic of Ireland. Stradbally is NOT located in Dublin, as it is rather lazily referred to on some artists' websites.
Electric Pink Electric Pink was the final Jade Tree Records recording for The Promise Ring, release in early 2000 featuring four new tracks. "Strictly Television" was recorded during the Very Emergency sessions, and sounds more like the band's older sound, while the other three sounds continued the progression in sound the band was making.
Electric Power Research Institute The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) conducts research on issues of interest to the electric power industry in the USA. EPRI is an independent, nonprofit organization funded by the electric utility industry.
Electric Power Steering Electric power steering (EPS or EPAS) is designed to use an electric motor to provide directional control to the driver of a vehicle. Most EPS systems have variable assist, which allows for more assistance as the speed of a vehicle decreases and less assistance from the system during high-speed situations.
Electric President Electric President is a Jacksonville, Florida musical duo started in 2003 after Alex Kane's former band Helicopter Project, for whom he played bass, split up. He and Ben Cooper, the other member of Electric President, wrote songs together and recorded them over the course of a few weeks.
Electric ray Electric rays (order Torpediniformes) are fish that have a rounded body and a pair of organs capable of producing an electric discharge, varying from as little as 8 volts to up to 220 volts depending on the species, which is used to stun or kill prey. There are 69 species in four families.
Electric Reliability Council of Texas The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) formed in 1970, as the successor to the Texas Interconected System (TIS). TIS originally formed in 1941 when several power companies banded together to provide their excess generation capacity to serve industrial loads on the Gulf Coast supporting the US war effort for World War 2.
Electric shock An electric shock can occur upon contact of a human or animal body with any source of voltage high enough to cause sufficient current flow through the muscles or nerves. The minimum detectable current in humans is thought to be about 1 milliampere (mA).
Electric shovel Electric shovel is one of the Powered types shovels used in the modern opencast mines for the excavation. There are different types of powered shovels like, electric shovels which operate by using the electricity and Hydraulic shovels etc.
Electric sitar An electric sitar is in fact a kind of electric guitar designed to mimic the sound of the traditional South Asian instrument, the sitar. Depending on the manufacturer and model, these instruments bear varying degrees of resemblance to the traditional sitar.
Electric susceptibility The electric susceptibility χe of a dielectric material is a measure of how easily it polarizes in response to an electric field. This, in turn, determines the electric permittivity of the material and thus influences many other phenomena in that medium, from the capacitance of capacitors to the speed of light.
Electric Samurai (The Noble Savage) Electric Samurai (The Noble Savage) is a 2004 album by Tomoyasu Hotei. In addition to a few original tracks, the album includes much of Hotei's work for the soundtracks of the films Samurai Fiction and Shin Jinginaki Tatakai ("Another Battle").
Electric Sheep Electric Sheep is a distributed computing project for generating, downloading, and playing movies of fractal flames while the screen saver is running, created by Scott Draves. The parameters that generate these movies, called sheep, can be created in a few ways: they can be created and submitted by members of the electricsheep mailing list, members of the mailing list can download the parameters of existing sheep and tweak them, or sheep can be mated together automatically by the server or manually by server admins (nicknamed shepherds).
Electric Sheep (band) Electric Sheep was a garage band that included Adam Jones (future Tool guitarist) and Tom Morello (future Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave guitarist). The band has the distinction, shared by The Grateful Dead, MC5, Sonic Youth and Radiohead, of having two members that made the Rolling Stone list of the 100 greatest guitarists of rock history (though The Allman Brothers Band has them beat with three).
Electric Soldier Porygon is the thirty-eighth and a banned episode of the original Pokémon anime and was aired on Japanese television in December 16, 1997. It is notable for using visual effects that caused seizures in a number of Japanese viewers.
Electric train supply Electric Train Supply or ETS is the supply of electricity which powers electrical equipment on a train. It is usually provided by the locomotive, and used to power auxiliary systems on the rolling stock, usually coaches.
Electric upright bass The electric upright bass (abbreviated EUB and sometimes also called stick bass) is an electronically amplified version of the double bass that has a minimal or 'skeleton' body. These features greatly reduce the size, weight and in some cases, the cost of the instrument whilst retaining some of the features of a double bass.
Electric utility An electric utility is a company (often a public utility) that engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity for sale generally in a regulated market. The electrical utility industry is a major provider of energy in most countries.
Electric Universe Electric Universe is a psychedelic trance project from Germany formed by Boris Blenn and Michael Dressler in 1991. Their first EP release, Solar Energy was an instant hit with the underground trance scene and is often credited with putting the Spirit Zone Recordings label at the forefront of psychedelic trance early on.
Electric vehicle An electric vehicle, or EV, is a vehicle with one or more electric motors for propulsion. The motion may be provided either by wheels or propellers driven by rotary motors, or in the case of tracked vehicles, by linear motors.
Electric vehicle conversion An electric vehicle conversion is the modification of a conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) driven vehicle to battery electric propulsion, creating a battery electric vehicle. In some cases the vehicle may be built by the converter, or assembled from a kit car, and vehicles of this type are also noted below.
Electric vehicle production This article outlines current projects, plans, productions for meeting ever increasing demand for electric vehicles. Included is each major automotive manufacturer's proposals, specifying range, battery type, motor design (in wheel/CVT), base price and production date due.
Electric violin An electric violin is a violin equipped with an electronic output of its sound. The term can refer to a standard violin fitted with an electric pickup of some type, or to an instrument purposely made to be electrified with built-in pickups, usually with a solid body.
Electric Vehicle The Electric Vehicle was an American automobile manufactured only in 1899. An electric cab, it was widely used in New York City; the company pioneered the use of pressed steel for wheels, and its cars featured front-wheel drive and brakes and rear-wheel steering.
Electric water boiler An electric water boiler, electric water heater, or electric water urn is a consumer electronics small appliance used for boiling water and maintaining it at a constant temperature. It is typically used in households to provide hot water at all times for human drinking or for brewing tea.
Electric yellow cichlid The electric yellow cichlid, Labidochromis caeruleus, is a freshwater perciform fish, a cichlid. It is also known as lemon yellow lab, the blue streak hap, the electric yellow African, and is called the yellow prince in the Philippines.
Electric Youth (song) "Electric Youth" is a the second single from the Debbie Gibson album of the same name. Issued as a single in the Spring of 1989, it became one of her most famous songs and just missed the top ten in both the U.
Electrical alternans Electrical alternans is an electrocardiographic phenomenon of alternation of QRS complex amplitude or axis between beats. It is seen in cardiac tamponade and is thought to be related to changes in the ventricular electrical axis due to fluid in the pericardium.
Electrical Audio Electrical Audio is a recording company founded by Steve Albini in 1997. It operates two recording studios in Chicago, Illinois, and has been influential in independent music through its recording philosophy and large number of recordings.
Electrical bonding Electrical bonding and the Earthing system of the mains supply are two different systems. Bonding refers to the fact that in a building served with electricity it is normal for safety reasons to connect all metal objects such as pipes together to the mains earth to form an equipotential zone.
Electrical bus An electrical bus (sometimes spelled buss) is a physical electrical interface where many devices share the same electric connection. This allows signals to be transferred between devices (allowing information or power to be shared).
Electrical capacitance tomography Electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) is a method for determination of the dielectric permittivity distribution in the interior of an object from external capacitance measurements. It is a close relative of electrical impedance tomography and is proposed as a method for industrial process monitoring, although it has yet to see widespread use.
Electrical conduction system of the heart The normal electrical conduction in the heart allows the impulse that is generated by the sinoatrial node (SA node) of the heart to be propagated to (and stimulate) the myocardium (Cardiac muscle). After myocardium is stimulated, it contracts.
Electrical conductivity Electrical conductivity or specific conductivity is a measure of a material's ability to conduct an electric current. When an electrical potential difference is placed across a conductor, its movable charges flow, giving rise to an electric current.
Electrical connector An electrical connector is a device for joining electrical circuits together. The connection may be temporary, as for portable equipment, or may require a tool for assembly and removal, or may be a permanent electrical joint between two wires or devices.
Electrical CAD Electrical CAD refers to software packages which allow to create and manage electrical schematics. Advanced packages will not only manage electrical schematics, but also integrate functionalities such as: cabinet and panel, lay-outs, terminals management, etc.
Electrical discharge machining Electrical discharge machining (or EDM) is a machining method primarily used for hard metals or those that would be impossible to machine with traditional techniques. One critical limitation, however, is that EDM only works with materials that are electrically conductive.
Electrical double layer The electrical double layer describes the variation of electric potential near a surface, and has a large bearing on the behaviour of colloids and other surfaces in contact with solutions. The analogue in a plasma is the double layer.
Electrical efficiency The efficiency of an entity (a device, component, or system) in electronics and electrical engineering is defined as useful power output divided by the total electrical power consumed (a fractional expression).
Electrical element An electric circuit, or electrical network, consists of electrical elements or components connected by conductors. An electrical component is any component in the generation, transmission, distribution, or consumption of electric power.
Electrical engineering Electrical engineering (sometimes referred to as electrical and electronic engineering) is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century with the commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical power supply.
Electrical engineering (terminology) The precise meaning of the term electrical engineering is not universally agreed upon. In some parts of the world, it is considered to be the most general of the electricity-related engineering disciplines, with electronics engineering being a subfield.
Electrical Equipment in Hazardous Areas Domestic electrical equipment in British homes is made and tested to a British Standard. The aim of the testing is to ensure that the equipment is fairly robust and has no exposed parts that can cause harm to the user.
Electrical filament An electrical filament is a thread of metal, usually tungsten, which is used to convert electricity into heat and light for the incandescent light bulb as made in 1878 by Joseph Wilson Swan, among others. The first successful light bulb filaments were made of carbon (from bamboo), only later replaced with tungsten.
Electrical generator An electrical generator is a device that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy, generally using electromagnetic induction. The source of mechanical energy may be a reciprocating or turbine steam engine, water falling through a turbine or waterwheel, an internal combustion engine, a wind turbine, a hand crank, or any other source of mechanical energy.
Electrical characteristics of a dynamic loudspeaker A dynamic loudspeaker's electrical characteristics are expressed as a curve, representing the loudspeaker's electrical impedance versus frequency. A loudspeaker is an electro-mechanical transducer that uses a voice coil rigidly connected to the diaphragm or cone.
Electrical impedance tomography Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT), is a medical imaging technique in which an image of the conductivity or permittivity of part of the body is inferred from surface electrical measurements. Typically conducting electrodes are attached to the skin of the subject and small alternating currents applied to some or all of the electrodes.
Electrical lengthening One understands by electric lengthening the modification of an aerial which is shorter than the whole-number multiple of the quarter of the radiated wavelength, by suitable electronic device without changing the length of the aerial in such a way that it corresponds electrically to the next whole-number multiples of the quarter of the used wavelength. Basically a lengthening is only possible to the next whole-number multiples of the quarter of the radiated wavelength.
Electrical mobility When a charged particle in a gas or liquid is acted upon by a uniform electric field, it will be accelerated until it reaches a constant limiting velocity. The "electrical mobility" of the particle is defined as the ratio of this limiting velocity to the magnitude of the field.
Electrical overload An electrical overload is a situation where an electrical machine or system is subjected to a greater load than it was designed for. This can be caused by short circuit, by incorrect installation, or by misuse such as running a high-powered appliance off a low-power extension cable.
Electrical power industry Electric power, often known as power or electricity, involves the production and delivery of electrical energy through in sufficient quantities to areas that need electricity. Many households and businesses need access to electricity, especially in developed nations, the demand being scarcer in developing nations.
Electrical quackery Electricity has long been thought to be an elemental life-force. Early experiments by Galvani showed that touching an electrically charged scalpel to an exposed nerve in the leg of a dead frog would cause the leg to kick as if the frog were still alive.
Electrical resistivity tomography Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) is a geophysical technique for imaging sub-surfaces structures from electrical measurements made at the surface, or by electrodes in one or more boreholes. It is closely related to the medical imaging technique electrical impedance tomography, and mathematically is the same inverse problem.
Electrical resonance Electrical resonance occurs in an electric circuit at a particular resonant frequency when the impedance between the input and output of the circuit is at a minimum (or when the transfer function is at a maximum). Often this happens when the impedance between the input and output of the circuit is zero and when the transfer function equals one.
Electrical sensitivity Electrical sensitivity (ES), sometimes also called electrosensitivity or electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS), is a condition in which a person reports physical and / or psychological symptoms which appear to be aggravated by electric or magnetic fields or other electromagnetic waves at exposure levels tolerated by the general public. It is a matter of ongoing controversy as to whether there is a direct physical link between EMF exposure and the symptoms experienced by sufferers, as no specific test currently exists.
Electrical shortening One understands by electric shortening the modification of an aerial which is longer than the a whole-number multiple of the quarter of the radiated wavelength, by suitable electronic device without changing the length of the aerial in such a way that it corresponds electrically to the previous whole-number multiples of the quarter of the used wavelength. Basically a shortening is only possible to the last whole-number multiples of the quarter of the radiated wavelength.
Electrical steel Electrical steel, also called silicon electrical steel, silicon steel or transformer steel, is a type of specialty steel that contains relatively high amounts of silicon, 3 to 4.5%, in order to produce certain magnetic properties, such as low core loss and high permeability.
Electrical synapse An electrical synapse is a mechanical and electrically conductive link between two abutting neurons that is formed at a narrow gap between the pre- and postsynaptic cells known as a gap junction. At gap junctions, cells approach within about 3.
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