The Kelvin water dropper, invented by Scottish scientist William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) in 1867, is a type of electrostatic generator. Kelvin referred to...

electrostatic generator in which charge is mechanically transported in small amounts into the interior of a high-voltage electrode originated with the Kelvin water...

In electricity generation, a generator is a device that converts motion-based power (potential and kinetic energy) or fuel-based power (chemical energy)...

A magnetohydrodynamic generator (MHD generator) is a magnetohydrodynamic converter that transforms thermal energy and kinetic energy directly into electricity...

Kelvin Doe (born October 26, 1996, in Freetown, Sierra Leone), also known as DJ Focus, is a Sierra Leonean engineer. He is known for teaching himself engineering...

Investec and Nedbank Capital. Kelvin consist of two independent stations. The A station (shut down in 2012) has six 30MW generators and 11 chain grate boilers...

An alternator is an electrical generator that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy in the form of alternating current. For reasons of cost...

An electrostatic generator, or electrostatic machine, is an electrical generator that produces static electricity, or electricity at high voltage and...

energy generation is found in Lord Kelvin's Thunderstorm, a device invented in 1867. Similar to ion wind generators, the Thunderstorm used water to carry...

Tianjin, China, also known as the "Water Drop" Kelvin water dropper, a type of electrostatic generator Water dropped from an aircraft as part of Aerial...

plans to develop a green roof, wind generator and solar panels to reduce Kelvin's carbon footprint. As well as Kelvin's annual Holiday Breakfast, hosting...

conditions. Most designs aim to heat their fuel to around 100 million kelvins, which presents a major challenge in producing a successful design. Tritium...

terminal measurement technique is called Kelvin sensing, after William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, who invented the Kelvin bridge in 1861 to measure very low resistances...

plant, energy is generated at a convenient voltage for the design of a generator, and then stepped up to a high voltage for transmission. Near the loads...

Carnot cycle. This is the Carnot efficiency, which is the ratio of the Kelvin temperatures of the cold to the hot reservoir. With the ideal, maximally...

transmission of AC power throughout the area, connecting the electricity generators with consumers. Grids can enable more efficient electricity markets. Although...

the electrical output. Kelvin water dropper Pelletron Van de Graaff generator Tesla coil "History of Electrostatic Generators". Hans-Peter Mathematick...

Parisian scientist Hippolyte Pixii, which were later expanded upon by Lord Kelvin and others in the 1880s. The first full AC power system, based on single...

pump-fed. Pump-fed engines work in a gas-generator cycle, a staged-combustion cycle, or an expander cycle. Gas-generator engines tend to be used on booster...

Conchita Alonso), are living on borrowed time in the hospital, with food & generator fuel running dangerously low. A soldier arrives with a newly developed...

of the Seebeck coefficient is volts per kelvin (V/K), although it is more often given in microvolts per kelvin (μV/K). The use of materials with a high...

Thermoelectric materials.) A Peltier cooler can also be used as a thermoelectric generator. When operated as a cooler, a voltage is applied across the device, and...

did so. The company started to supply electricity from its Nile Street generator to the streets of Port Adelaide on 1 January 1899, but the quality was...

A distribution of magnetic current, commonly called a magnetic frill generator, may be used to replace the driving source and feed line in the analysis...

principle of transformers, inductors, and many types of electric motors, generators and solenoids. The Maxwell–Faraday equation (listed as one of Maxwell's...

limited to) methods known via magneto-hydrodynamic generators. In the various experiments by Lord Kelvin, metal plates were symmetrically perpendicular to...

in this system in the UK. With the help of Lord Kelvin, Ferranti pioneered the first AC power generator and transformer in 1882. John Hopkinson, a British...

and unloading goods, minimising the need for shore cranes. Aotearoa has a Kelvin Hughes Integrated Naval Bridge System and is equipped with Farsounder-1000...

effect is an extension of the Peltier–Seebeck model and is credited to Lord Kelvin. Joule heating, the heat that is generated whenever a current is passed...

generator and one heat recovery steam generator (HRSG). The gas turbine and steam turbine are both coupled in tandem to a single electrical generator...