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Charles B. "Cosmo" Wilson (born February 18, 1961) is an American concert lighting designer and director for rock bands, active since 1986. [1]He has worked with over 40 acts including AC/DC, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Foreigner, INXS, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Meat Loaf, Mötley Crüe, The Rolling Stones, Ronnie James Dio, David Lee Roth, Scorpions, [2] and Rod Stewart.
During the 1930s, the company built a large factory at Guiseley near Leeds where most of its lamp and electric motor manufacturing was based. The lamp works closed in 2002, and the adjacent electric motor works closed in 2004. The entire site was demolished in 2006, [15] with the clock tower preserved and relocated to a new car park adjacent to ...
The company operates globally designing lighting for many different genres including music, theatrical performance, special events as well as permanent architectural entertainment installations. In 2013 he was made a Royal Designer for Industry by the RSA and he was awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 ...
Direct current mains supplies are only of historical interest in the UK but the colour coding was red for live and black for earthed (regardless of the polarity). Hardly any loads were polarity sensitive when direct current systems were introduced (principally incandescent lighting, heating systems or series direct current motors) and it was ...
AC/DC converter, or rectifier, a device that converts AC to DC; AC/DC motor, a type of electric motor that runs on AC or DC; AC/DC receiver, broadcast receivers from the early days of radio and television that ran from AC or DC mains; AC/DC supply, power supply; The historical commercial Battle of Currents between distributors of AC or DC as ...
AC/DC Top Duo/Group Nominated [33] Top Rock Artist Nominated Power Up: Top Rock Album Nominated Brit Awards: 2009: Black Ice: International Album: Nominated [34] AC/DC International Group: Nominated Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards: 2008 Plug Me In: DVD of the Year Won [35] 2009 Black Ice: Album of the Year Won [36] 2010 AC/DC Band of the ...
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The war of the currents was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s. It grew out of two lighting systems developed in the late 1870s and early 1880s: arc lamp street lighting running on high-voltage alternating current (AC), and large-scale low-voltage direct current (DC) indoor incandescent lighting ...