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    Modern Electrics was a technical magazine for the amateur radio experimenter. The magazine existed between 1908 and 1914. Modern Electrics was created...
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    published from 1890 to January 1914 when it merged with Modern Electrics to become Modern Electrics & Mechanics. In July 1914, incorporated with Popular...
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    WRNY, and the world's first magazine about electronics and radio, Modern Electrics. Gernsback died in New York City in 1967. Gernsback was born in 1884...
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    becoming homeless. In 1985, while filming an instructional video (Modern Electric Bass), Pastorius told the interviewer, Jerry Jemmott, that although...
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    Modern all-electric cars An electric car or electric vehicle (EV) is a passenger automobile that is propelled by an electric traction motor, using electrical...
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    19th century. Modern electric light sources come in a profusion of types and sizes adapted to many applications. Most modern electric lighting is powered...
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  • experienced colleagues. The 1909 Wireless Registry in the May edition of Modern Electrics listed Earl C. Hawkins of Minneapolis, Minnesota, as operating with...
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    1909 in an amateur radio magazine Pettingill, Clark (January 1909). "Novel Detector" (PDF). Modern Electrics. 10 (1). Modern Electrics Publication: 352....
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  • addressees of licensed radio stations in a given jurisdiction (country). Modern Electrics published the first callbook in the United States in 1909. Today, the...
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    mid 1970s electrics used about 25% less fuel per ton-km than diesels. However, part of this savings may be due to less stopping of electrics to let opposing...
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    an early science fiction novel, written as a twelve-part serial in Modern Electrics magazine, which Gernsback edited, beginning in April 1911. It was compiled...
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    February 1910. p. 156. "Notable achievements of wireless" (PDF). Modern Electrics. September 1910. p. 315. Edwards, John (9 June 2020). "Slavonia sends...
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    were electric. EVs were so popular that even President Woodrow Wilson and his secret service agents toured Washington, D.C., in their Milburn Electrics, which...
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    sconce may be a traditional torch, cresset, candle or gaslight, or a modern electric light source affixed in the same way. Sconces can be placed on both...
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    father of the modern electric razor, who patented the first electric razor in 1930. The Remington Rand Corporation developed the electric razor further...
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    March 1966. It was established in 1970 by Claude Lane, founder of Modern Electric Tramways Ltd, which had previously operated in Eastbourne between 1954...
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    were the predecessor of his first magazine, Modern Electrics (April 1908). Gernsback sold Modern Electrics in March 1913 and it became Electrician and...
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    The modern pentathlon is an Olympic multisport that currently consists of fencing (one-touch épée), freestyle swimming, equestrian show jumping, pistol...
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  • addressees of licensed radio stations in a given jurisdiction (country). Modern Electrics published the first callbook in the United States in 1909. Today, the...
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    Jordan Gatling. It is an early machine gun and a forerunner of the modern electric motor-driven rotary cannon. The Gatling gun's operation centered on...
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    and inexpensive, sales of the Electric dropped in the 1920s, but the company stayed in business producing Detroit Electrics until after the stock market...
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    Joule heating: an electric current passing through a resistor will convert that electrical energy into heat energy. Most modern electric heating devices...
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    toothbrushes, ultrasonic motions are produced by a piezoelectric crystal. A modern electric toothbrush is usually powered by a rechargeable battery charged through...
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  • Journal Linux Magazine MacLife Macworld Maximum PC MIT Technology Review Modern Electrics (defunct) Nuts and Volts PC Magazine PCWorld RUN (defunct) SERVO Magazine...
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    Fielding and keyboard player and producer Michael Ross. Electric Fields combine modern electric-soul music with Aboriginal culture and sing in Pitjantjatjara...
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    published monthly. It was established in May 1913, as the successor to Modern Electrics, a combination of a magazine and mail-order catalog that had been published...
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    new magazine, Practical Electrics, was created to appeal to a wider audience. This was initially published by Practical Electrics Company, a subsidiary...
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    Mechanic magazine in 1914, the Modern Publishing Company had merged it with Modern Electrics to become Modern Electrics & Mechanics. Later that year, they...
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    The Modern IN is an electric compact SUV, manufactured by Beijing Automobile Works (BAW) for Modern Auto from 2021. Modern Auto was established in Shanghai...
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  • but usually applies to diesel-hydraulic locomotives rather than diesel-electrics. The axles on each bogie are coupled together mechanically, rather than...
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