Battery Technical
How the War of Currents Gave Us 110 Volts AC
Thomas Edison launched his 110 Volt DC grid in 1882 in the face of stiff…
Browsing: Direct Current
Battery Technical
Battery Technical
Thomas Edison and the 110-Volt Light Bulb
Thomas Edison was a serial inventor. He began his career tinkering with telegraphy equipment before…
Battery Basics
Film Capacitors Are Not Just for Movies
Film capacitors are functionally similar to ceramic capacitors because they are both non-polarized. We can…
Battery Experiments
Bridging Across from Direct to Alternating Current
For a series of historical reasons that we do not go into detail here, we…
Battery Technical
An Inclinator Fit for a King & Other Tales
King Henry VIII was the first recorded owner of a stairlift, after he hurt his…
Making Robot Responders More Energy Efficient
Sandia National Laboratories is taking on one of the biggest barriers to the use…
An Advanced Power-Conversion Switch Helps Upgrade U.S. Power Grid
Researchers at General Electric Co. enlisted the help of the U.S. Department of Energy’s…
What is Polarity?
Polarity is a term used in electricity, magnetism and electronic signaling, just to name…
The History of AC vs. DC
J Just about every home and business is wired for Alternating Current (AC). However,…