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    electric current it is known as direct current (DC). The other one is known as alternating current (AC). However‚ an electric current can be produce by moving a magnet inside a coil‚ wire‚ so the size of this induces current and it is able to increase by moving the magnet faster. This is using a stronger magnet‚ so increasing the number of the turns‚ coils. It may be able to increase its area but the dynamo is a type of electricity generator. Direct current If you flow the current in only

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    21‚ 2008; Accepted September 3‚ 2008. Volume 1‚ Number 1‚ September 2008. The Hands-on Science Network’ 2008 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Alternating Current and Direct Current Generator Pedro Portela‚ João Sepúlveda‚ João Sena Esteves Department of Industrial Electronic University of Minho‚ Campus of Azurém‚ 4800-058 Guimarães‚ Portugal delfimpedrosa@gmail.com‚ sena@dei.uminho.pt Abstract. Spinning

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    Nikola and Edison both worked restlessly on Edison’s (DC) direct current power. Nikola Tesla at one point was promised by Edison that he would get paid $50‚000 if he would improve Edison’s (DC) direct current power system‚ but Edison tricked Tesla and said that Tesla didn’t understand “American humor”. Nikola Tesla quit after that. Nikola Tesla was backed up by some people who wanted to be a part of his (AC) alternating current power system. One of these people was a man named George Westinghouse

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    dynamic issue. Throughout his book‚ Moran writes about the inhumanity of the death penalty‚ including the barbaric methods and public spectacle of the act prior to William Kemmler‚ and most importantly‚ the safety and efficacy of direct current versus alternating current in the eventually preferred method of the electric chair. Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse‚ along with a few others‚ were the players who manipulated how the public‚ and therefore the lawmakers‚ felt about this social policy.

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    Scientist Nikola Tesla was an influential historical figure whose findings and inventions helped shape the modern world of electricity. The 18th-19th century scientist quickly became known as the “Mad Scientist”‚ and later as the “Genius Who Lit the World”. Nikola Tesla is responsible for over 300 inventions and 700 patents worldwide. He was not properly credited or widely accepted as a great inventor until after his death. However‚ that did not stop the great man from furthering his studies and

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    Fact Sheet for Famous Physicist Name of Physicist: Nikola Tesla Date of Birth and Death: July 10 1856 - January 7 1943 Nationality: Serbian Description of Childhood Upbringing/Early Years: Nikola Tesla was born in the Austrian territory. Tesla obtained an excellent education in engineering and physics in the 1870s. He gained practical experience in the 1880s working in telephony. He worked on telephony in Continental Edison in the new electric power

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    his most significant‚ as it was his principles of electromagnetic energy to start so many of his other creative development and remains to this day‚ the essential operating principle behind all and electroless induction lighting electronics. "alternating current". Tesla was perhaps one of the most brilliant man to ever walk this earth‚ if it was not for his inventions and his work in the electromagnetic field‚ we might not have electromagnetic lighting today. · Tesla was born on July 9‚ 1856 in

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    |[pic] |United International University (UIU) | | |Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) | | |Course Outline | | |Course:

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    reason Nikola Tesla was so successful as an inventor was that he was innovative. Tesla had many great ideas for new inventions. His first being the induction motor‚ which “would become his first step toward the successful utilization of the alternating current: (Hunt). Once

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    levels of wasted energy are given off in the form of heat. Quite a "green" product from a manufacturing and chemical/recyclable point of view. CFL "energy savers"‚ fluorescent tubes and many other conventional lamps use higher frequency alternating current to excite harmful chemicals to emit light. One 5 foot 1‚5meter tube contains enough mercury to contaminate a swimming pool. Billions have been dumped into waste disposal. Heavy metal poisons have a cumulative effect. In the long term these

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