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Henry Cavendish, Salute to Silent Genius
The power to overcome adversity is the mark of many famous people. Beethoven wrote his…
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Voyager 2 Thermonuclear Generator Triumph
The Voyager 2 space probe left Cape Canaveral on August 20, 1977 before many of…
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Electric Car History If Only Voltra Persisted
The year 1963 was a roller coaster one for United States politics. First, George Wallace…
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Francis Hauksbee and The Gentle Wind
We wrote about electro hydrodynamics recently and how engineers at MIT used it to fly…
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Let Us Talk About Stored Energy for a Moment
Energy is around us in many different forms. In the electrical industry, we think of…
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Dr Ferdinand Porsche Builds Electric Car
It’s strange the way things go around in circles. The Poet T.S. Eliot wrote in…
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Arrival of Electric Taxis in NYC in July 1897
As the end of the 19th Century dawned, internal combustion and electric vehicles were competing…
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America’s First Real Electric Automobile Arrives
America’s first real electric automobile owed its existence to a Des Moines, an Iowa chemist.…
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Father of the American Electric Automobile
America has long held a lead over other nations when it comes to its favorite…
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Andrew Riker Drops Out to Build Electric Cars
Andrew Riker was born in America in 1868, and dropped out of college in his…