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Four Things About Starter Batteries You Did Not Know
We’ve become quiet blasé about auto starter batteries in North America. We expect them to…
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Lithium-Ion Battery History & Functions
Lithium-ion batteries are one of the most significant devices of our times. Although we do…
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Climate and Volcanoes in Deadly Embrace
The eruption of Anak Krakatau in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra on 22…
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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…