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    The Oxford Electric Bell or Clarendon Dry Pile is an experimental electric bell, in particular a type of bell that uses the electrostatic clock principle...
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    An electric bell is a mechanical or electronic bell that functions by means of an electromagnet. When an electric current is applied, it produces a repetitive...
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    kilovolt range, but current output in the nanoampere range. The famous Oxford Electric Bell, which has been ringing continuously since 1840, is thought to be...
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    is predated by two other (still-active) scientific devices, the Oxford Electric Bell (1840) and the Beverly Clock (1864), but each of these has experienced...
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    Franklin bells (also known as lightning bells) are an early demonstration of electric charge designed to work with a Leyden jar or a lightning rod. Franklin...
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    recharge, although it can supply very little current (nanoamps). The Oxford Electric Bell has been ringing almost continuously since 1840 on its original pair...
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    readjust, the clock begins operating again. Long-term experiment Oxford Electric Bell (1840) Pitch drop experiment (1927) Cox's timepiece Clock of the...
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    research and development under Western Electric, a Bell subsidiary, the Engineering Department was reformed into Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1925 and placed...
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    operate for hundreds or thousands of years.[citation needed] The Oxford Electric Bell and the Karpen Pile [ro] are driven by dry pile batteries. In flywheel...
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    building, substantially enlarged, is now part of the Oxford Earth Sciences Department. The Oxford Electric Bell apparatus (also known as the Clarendon Dry Pile)...
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    et al. -- "Electrostatic Motor" Electrostatic generator Nanomotor Oxford Electric Bell Daniel C. Ludois; Kevin Frankforter; Aditya N. Ghule; Peter Killeen;...
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  • laws and basic rocketry Franklin bells — demonstrate electric charges Oxford Electric Bell — an experimental electric bell that was set up in 1840 and which...
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    American Bell Association International Bellhop Bicycle bell Bermuda carriage bell Cat bell Cowbell Doorbell Division bell Electric bell Electronic...
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    g. field observations of chimpanzee behavior). The Oxford Electric Bell has been ringing at Oxford University since 1840, although there is some reason...
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    the knobs looks like a pendulum. In the Oxford Electric Bell experiment at the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford University, the terminals of what is believed...
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    Michael (20 November 2011). "Oxford Carfax Tower". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Central Council of Church Bell Ringers. Retrieved 17 December...
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  • matrix Overtone Owen Chamberlain Owen Willans Richardson Oxford Calculators Oxford Electric Bell Oxide thin-film transistor Oxsensis Oxygen-burning process...
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  • The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963...
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    generated power could be the reason why the pile is still working. Oxford Electric Bell Beverly Clock Pitch drop experiment (in Romanian) Academia RPR, Dicționar...
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    Alexander Graham Bell (/ˈɡreɪ.əm/, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and...
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    Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the Great Clock of Westminster, and, by extension, for the clock tower itself, which stands at the north...
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    injury, (electric injury) or electrical shock (electric shock) is damage sustained to the skin or internal organs on direct contact with an electric current...
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    General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the state of New York and headquartered in Boston...
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    General Electric and Contel of Maine to Oxford Networks, which placed the company into a newly created subsidiary, Oxford West Telephone. Bell Atlantic...
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    Electricity (redirect from Electric)
    electricity, electric heating, electric discharges and many others. The presence of either a positive or negative electric charge produces an electric field...
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    Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (沖電気工業株式会社, Oki Denki Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha), commonly referred to as OKI, OKI Electric or the OKI Group, is a Japanese...
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  • eliminated. Oxford Instruments was not able to capitalise on these inventions itself, granting royalty-free license to Philips and General Electric whilst...
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  • Joseph (1891). The Electric Motor and Its Applications, with an Appendix on 'The Development of the Electric Motor Since 1888' by Louis Bell (3rd ed.). The...
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  • Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, or simply Electric Dreams, is a science fiction television anthology series based on the works of Philip K. Dick. The...
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    Experiments during this period to strike the bells electrically or to replace them outright with electric signaling systems were unsuccessful because the...
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