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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 .
A lightning strike or lightning bolt is a lightning event in which the 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 strike, ground-to-cloud (GC) lightning, is upward-propagating lightning ...
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Lightning bolt often refers to: Lightning , an electric discharge in the atmosphere or between the atmosphere and the ground Thunderbolt , a symbolic representation of lightning accompanied by a loud thunderclap
In the blink of an eye, out of the blue, a lightning bolt struck Ray Caldwell as he stood on the pitcher's mound, mid-game. Somehow, he just popped back up and finished the game. "It happened to ...
Speculations of Jean-Antoine Nollet had led to the issue of the electrical nature of lightning being posed as a prize question at Bordeaux in 1749. In 1750, it was the subject of public discussion in France with a dissertation of Denis Barberet receiving a prize in Bordeaux. Barberet proposed a cause in line with the triboelectric effect.