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  2. Dynamo theory - Wikipedia

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    It was once believed that the dipole, which comprises much of the Earth's magnetic field and is misaligned along the rotation axis by 11.3 degrees, was caused by permanent magnetization of the materials in the earth. This means that dynamo theory was originally used to explain the Sun's magnetic field in its relationship with that of the Earth.

  3. Antonio Pacinotti - Wikipedia

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    Pacinotti-Gramme ring armature Dynamo of Pacinotti. He is best known for inventing an improved form of direct-current electrical generator, or dynamo, which he built in 1860 and described in a paper published in Il Nuovo Cimento of 1865. It used a ring armature around which was wrapped a coil of wire, to produce a smoother current than that ...

  4. Shem Drowne - Wikipedia

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    The grasshopper is copper gilded with gold leaf with glass eyes. The vane fell off the building during the earthquake of 1755 which shook Boston. He and his son Thomas repaired it and remounted it. In 1768 Thomas placed a note labeled "food for the grasshopper" in the belly of the grasshopper. It read: Shem Drowne made it, May 25, 1742.

  5. Parametric design - Wikipedia

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    Grasshopper 3D: A plug-in for Rhinoceros 3D that provides a visual programming language interface to create and edit geometry. It is based on graphs that map the flow of relations from parameters through user-defined functions (nodes). Grasshopper is a visual programming environment built on top of Rhino.

  6. Walter M. Elsasser - Wikipedia

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    Walter Maurice Elsasser (March 20, 1904 – October 14, 1991) was a German-born American physicist, a developer of the presently accepted dynamo theory as an explanation of the Earth's magnetism. He proposed that this magnetic field resulted from electric currents induced in the fluid outer core of the Earth.

  7. DYNAMO (programming language) - Wikipedia

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    DYNAMO (DYNAmic MOdels) is a simulation language and accompanying graphical notation developed within the system dynamics analytical framework. It was originally for industrial dynamics but was soon extended to other applications, including population and resource studies [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and urban planning.

  8. Global distillation - Wikipedia

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    Global distillation or the Grasshopper effect is the geochemical process by which certain chemicals, most notably persistent organic pollutants (POPs), are vaporized and transported from warmer to colder regions of the Earth, particularly the poles and mountain tops, where they condense.

  9. Gramme machine - Wikipedia

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    A Gramme machine, Gramme ring, Gramme magneto, or Gramme dynamo is an electrical generator that produces direct current, named for its Belgian inventor, Zénobe Gramme, and was built as either a dynamo or a magneto. [1] It was the first generator to produce power on a commercial scale for industry.