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2. Electrical wiring in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. Crompton Parkinson - Wikipedia

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   The company was widely known for installing the first electric lighting in Windsor Castle, Holyrood Palace and other prominent buildings. [2] F. & A. Parkinson Ltd. was a successful electric motor manufacturing company founded by two brothers, Albert and Frank Parkinson, who was a former student of (and later a major benefactor of) Leeds ...

4. Patrick Woodroffe (lighting designer) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

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

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   These include plugs with insulated sleeves, sockets with blocking shutters, and sockets designed to accept only compatible plugs inserted in the correct orientation. The term plug is in general and technical use in all forms of English, common alternatives being power plug , [ 3 ] electric plug , [ 4 ] and plug top . [ 5 ]

6. Electric Lighting Acts 1882 to 1909 - Wikipedia

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   This was enacted as the Liverpool (Corporation) Electric Lighting Act 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. ccxiii), this was the first electric lighting act in the UK. [ 2 ] Given the number of private electricity bills before Parliament, on 28 March 1878 Parliament appointed a committee under the chairmanship of Dr. Lyon Playfair , MP to examine the issues ...

7. War of the currents - Wikipedia

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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 ...

8. Maudslay Motor Company - Wikipedia

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   1910 Maudslay 17hp Tourer 1910 Maudslay 32hp Tourer at Coventry Transport Museum. The Maudslay Motor Company was a British vehicle maker based in Coventry. It was founded in 1901 and continued until 1948 when it was taken over by the Associated Equipment Company (AEC) and along with Crossley Motors the new group was renamed Associated Commercial Vehicles (ACV) Ltd.

9. AC/DC (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...