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• USCGC Barataria (WAVP-381)
  |Ship power=6,000 [[horsepower]] (4.48 MW) ...ed ''Barataria'' to the Coast Guard on 17 September 1948. After undergoing conversion for use as a weather-reporting ship, she was commissioned into the Coast Gu
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• Ship gun fire-control systems
  }}</ref> During World War II, servomechanisms (called "power drives" in the U.S. Navy) were developed that allowed the guns to automatic ...ain armament, but many RN battleships and cruisers were fitted with Remote Power Control (RPC) via servomotors for secondary and primary armament, by the en
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• Alternator
  ...ven by automotive and other internal combustion engines. Alternators in [[power station]]s driven by [[steam turbine]]s are called turbo-alternators. <ref>The Electrical Year Book 1937, published by Emmott & Co Ltd, Manchester, England, page 72<
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• RadioShack PRO-2052
  Triple-Conversion Circuitry - virtually eliminates any interference from memory in the event AC power goes out.
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• Airspeed Oxford
  ...roscope|gyroscopic instrumentations]]. The port engine drives a 500-watt [[electrical generator]].<ref name="Mod p629 632">''Flight'' 30 June 1938, pp. 629, 632. ...pilot's cockpit for internal access to the flight controls, hydraulics and electrical components; inspection panels are also present in the outer wing sections.<
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• Mortimer J. Adler
  ...uring his life, ... there were moral—not intellectual—obstacles to his conversion. He didn't explain any further." ...1984, only a few years after that interview. Offering insight into Adler's conversion, Myers quotes Adler from a subsequent 1990 article in ''Christianity'' maga
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• Polypropylene
  ...roduction of melt-blown and spun-bond fibers to form long rolls for future conversion into a wide range of useful products, such as face masks, filters, nappies ...lene are used as a [[dielectric]] within certain high-performance [[Pulsed power|pulse]] and low-loss [[Radio frequency|RF]] [[capacitors]].
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• Refractory metals
  ...action]] [[control rod]]s, as [[catalyst]]s, and for their [[chemical]] or electrical properties. Because of their high [[melting point]], refractory metal comp ...sbn = 8122420303 | title = Powder metallurgy : processing for automotive, electrical/electronic and engineering industry| first = P. | last = Ramakrishnan | pub
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• R-value (insulation)
  ...mal resistors in the analogous circuit, each in series. Like resistance in electrical circuits, increasing the physical length of a resistive element (graphite, The conversion between SI and US units of R-value is 1 h·ft²·°F/Btu = 0.176110 K·m²/
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• Chlorine
  This conversion to the right is called [[disproportionation]], because the ingredient chlor ...>{{Cite journal|title=J. S. C. Schweigger: His Romanticism and His Crystal Electrical Theory of Matter|author=Snelders, H. A. M.|journal=Isis|volume=62|issue=3 |
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• Wildfire
  ...ower_line_wildfires |title=News 8 Investigation: SDG&E Could Be Liable For Power Line Wildfires|accessdate=2009-07-20|date=2007-11-05|publisher=UCAN News}}< ...ed to human activities such as [[animal husbandry]], agriculture, and land-conversion burning. Human carelessness is a major cause of wildfires in China and in
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• Air knife
  ...own force to assist in the mechanical bonding of materials to the surface. Electrical currents from anti-static bars can also be injected into the exit air knife ...industry was still in its infancy, it was among the first to initiate the conversion to aqueous and semi-aqueous based parts cleaning systems.
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• Voltage doubler
  ...it has the great benefit of simplicity, its output has very poor [[ripple (electrical)|ripple]] characteristics. Essentially, the circuit is a diode [[clamp (cir ...newly invented [[ionometer]], the 110&nbsp;V AC supplied by the [[Zurich]] power stations of the time being insufficient.<ref>Mehra, p.&nbsp;284</ref> He l
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• Phase-locked loop
  ...k loop''' (PLL) is a [[control system]] that generates an output [[Signal (electrical engineering)|signal]] whose [[phase (waves)|phase]] is related to the phase ...ency), but the number of laps (a distance) corresponds to a phase (and the conversion factor is the distance around the track loop).
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• Impedance matching
  ...responding signal source) to [[Maximum power transfer theorem|maximize the power transfer]] and/or minimize [[Signal reflection|reflections]] from the load. ...impedance ''Z''_S and load impedance ''Z''_L, maximum power transfer is obtained when
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• Circuit design
  *synthesising on paper a [[schematic]] [[circuit diagram]], an abstract electrical or electronic circuit that will meet the specifications ...hat signals it must output, what power supplies are available and how much power it is permitted to consume. The specification can (and normally does) also
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• CMOS
  ...everal analog circuits such as [[image sensor]]s ([[CMOS sensor]]), [[data conversion|data converters]], and highly integrated [[transceiver]]s for many types of ...c noise|noise immunity]] and low static [[power consumption]]. Significant power is only drawn when the [[transistor]]s in the CMOS device are switching bet
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• Continuity tester
  ...ity Tester Info Source| accessdate= April 28, 2011}}</ref> that is if an [[electrical circuit]] can be made. The circuit under test is completely de-energized pr The tester consists of an indicator in series with a source of electrical power - normally a [[Battery (electricity)|battery]], terminating in two [[test l
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• Marx generator
  ...used to simulate the effects of lightning on [[Electric power transmission|power line gear]] and aviation equipment. ...pply, the faster it will charge. Thus, in this design, those closer to the power supply will charge quicker than those farther away. If the generator is all
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• Oscilloscope types
  ...fier]], a timebase, a horizontal amplifier and a [[electronic power supply|power supply]]. These are now called "analog" oscilloscopes to distinguish them f ...is an important component of the oscilloscope. It provides low voltages to power the cathode heater in the tube (isolated for high voltage!), and the vertic
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