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Reddy Kilowatt, the rival electrical mascot licensed by Ashton B. Collins Sr. to investor-owned utilities. Willie Wiredhand was created when the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) was unable to license the Reddy Kilowatt mascot from Ashton B. Collins Sr. [1] Collins created his Reddy Kilowatt mascot in 1934 to promote private investor-owned utilities. [2]
He turned to a colleague, APC engineer Dan Clinton, to create the first drawings of Reddy Kilowatt, an “electrical servant” with lightning bolt arms and legs, wearing safety gloves and shoes. He added a friendly face with a light bulb nose and wall outlets for ears. [3] APC copyrighted the character on March 6, 1926.
en:SVG logo of a stylized en:lightning bolt on a en:circle. This was designed by me, en:User:Crotalus horridus, as a public domain image that could be used on en:Template:User Metroid. It is similar in style to the screw attack power up. Date: 26 January 2006 (original upload date) Source: Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is/was ...
A thunderbolt or lightning bolt is a symbolic representation of lightning when accompanied by a loud thunderclap. In Indo-European mythology, the thunderbolt was identified with the 'Sky Father' ; this association is also found in later Hellenic representations of Zeus and Vedic descriptions of the vajra wielded by the god Indra .
The presence of multiple bolts shows this is a time-exposure photograph. A lightning strike or lightning bolt is a lightning event in which an electric discharge takes place between the atmosphere and the ground. Most originate in a cumulonimbus cloud and terminate on the ground, called cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning. A less common type of ...
The slight branching redness traveling up this person's leg was created by current from a nearby lightning strike. A Lichtenberg figure (German: Lichtenberg-Figur ), or Lichtenberg dust figure , is a branching electric discharge that sometimes appears on the surface or in the interior of insulating materials .
In later cartoons, Lightning often appeared as one of Tom's alley cat buddies/rivals. Lightning has the same character design as Butch, but with an orange color (although his tone of his coloring and even his design occasionally varies from film-to-film). In Mucho Mouse, he speaks Spanish and is a house cat.
A sprite over Southeast Asia as seen from space.. Sprites or red sprites are large-scale electric discharges that occur in the mesosphere, high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky.