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  2. Lineman's pliers - Wikipedia

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    Lineman's pliers are used in the electrical trade to cut, straighten, and bend wire, and also to twist wires together when making splices. Lineman's can be used to strip wire and some types of cable, although wire strippers are more commonly used for this purpose as they can strip wire more quickly without damaging the conductors themselves.

  3. AC power plugs and sockets: British and related types

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    The International Electrotechnical Commission publishes IEC 60050, the International Electrotechnical Vocabulary. [2]Generally the plug is the movable connector attached to an electrically operated device's mains cable, and the socket is fixed on equipment or a building structure and connected to an energised electrical circuit.

  4. Knob-and-tube wiring - Wikipedia

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    Your Old Wiring. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0071357012. Written for home owners and do-it-yourselfers. Shapiro, David E. (2010). Old Electrical Wiring: Evaluating, Repairing, and Upgrading Dated Systems (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0071663571. Written for professional electricians and advanced property owners.

  5. Interchangeable parts - Wikipedia

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    The Congress was captivated and ordered a standard for all United States equipment. The use of interchangeable parts removed the problems of earlier eras concerning the difficulty or impossibility of producing new parts for old equipment. If one firearm part failed, another could be ordered, and the firearm would not need to be discarded.

  6. Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering - Wikipedia

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    Italian physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris publishes a paper on the induction motor, and Serbian-American engineer Nikola Tesla gets a US patent on the same device [4] [5] 1890: Thomas Alva Edison invents the fuse: 1893: During the Fourth International Conference of Electricians in Chicago, electrical units were defined 1893

  7. Electrical device - Wikipedia

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    Electrical equipment part of the distribution system in a large building. Electrical equipment includes any machine powered by electricity. It usually consists of an enclosure, a variety of electrical components, and often a power switch. Examples of these include: Lighting; Major appliance; Small appliances; IT equipment (computers, printers etc.)

  8. SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention - Wikipedia

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    Spark Museum Light Bulbs Spark Museum AC DC Exhibit. The museum began in 1985 as an informal collection of radio sets, spare parts, schematics, recordings, and vintage magazines and manuals owned by a Bellingham resident, Jonathan Winter [1] Winter's collection continued to grow, and by 1998, the Bellingham Antique Radio Museum was officially established, with the more than 800 radio sets from ...

  9. History of AC power plugs and sockets - Wikipedia

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    U.S. patent 774,250.The first US power plug and socket dated 1904. Several early American electrical plug and socket arrangements were invented by Harvey Hubbell.On 26 February 1903 he filed two patent applications featuring 2-pin plugs and adaptors for using his plugs with existing designs of lamp sockets and wall receptacles.

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