HOW DOES ELECTRICITY CREATE MAGNETISM? HOW DOES MAGNETISM PRODUCE ELECTRICITY? WHAT DO GENERATORS DO? ELECTRIC MOTORSFIND OUT MOREAn electric current produces magnetism, and a magnet can produce an…
(Encyclopedia) electrostatics, study of phenomena associated with charged bodies at rest (see charge; electricity). A charged body has an excess of positive or negative charges, a condition usually…
(Encyclopedia) magnetronmagnetronmăgˈnĭtrŏnˌ [key], vacuum tube oscillator (see electron tube) that generates high-power electromagnetic signals in the microwave frequency range. Its operation is…
ELECTROMAGNETELECTROMAGNET AT WORKMAGNETIC LEVITATIONELECTROMAGNET IN ACTIONBIOGRAPHY: HANS CHRISTIAN OERSTED Danish, 1777-1851BIOGRAPHY: MICHAEL FARADAY British, 1791-1867TRANSFORMERSFIND OUT…
Runner Abebe Bikila became the first black African to win gold
by Gerry Brown Abebe Bikila runs barefoot at the Rome Olympics in 1960. Related Links Olympics Overview…
Long dominated by Scandinavian countries by John Gettings and Christine Frantz Related Links 2010 Winter Olympics2010 Winter Olypmic ResultsResults of Nordic Combined Through the…
(Encyclopedia) Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial…
Michael Johnson sets the pace in 1996
by John Gettings Michael Johnson at the Atlanta Olympic Games. (Source: AP) Related Links Olympics Overview 2012 Track and…
(Encyclopedia) shinty, a game originating in 17th cent. Scotland, in which opposing teams of 12 players each attempt to knock a small ball through their opponent's goal, or hail, using sticks similar…
The word for the longest measurement of time is kalpa, Hindi for 432 billion years. A year is the time it takes for the earth to revolve around the sun once. A calendar…
