Quotes Tagged "electrical"

I will miss you not because you taught me, not because you helped me on all steps of education; but only because you made me a leader to lead as an perfect Electrical Engineer.

Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don't intend to give in either till all is completed.

Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.

The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.

Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.

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.

Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or a suitably placed steel magnet.

Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes.

I'm afraid of a gas leak, although I installed detectors. I'm afraid of a blown fuse that could cause a fire, and that's why I don't turn on electrical appliances at night.

I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 15, 1916. My father, an electrical engineer, had come to the United States in 1903 after earning his engineering diploma at the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt, Germany.

When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.

On Mir, the lights kept going out because it had developed so many electrical problems.