Sentence examples for alternating current electrification from inspiring English sources

In the early decades of high-voltage alternating current electrification, available alternating-current motors were not suitable for operation with alternating current of the standard commercial or industrial frequencies (50 hertz [cycles per second] in Europe; 60 hertz in the United States and parts of Japan).

Upon impact, alternating current, caused by the contact electrification and electrostatic induction, flows between the Al electrodes.

Particularly influential on both counts was the successful French pioneering of electrification with a direct supply of high-voltage alternating current at the industrial frequency.

In Europe, international train operation without a locomotive change at frontiers is complicated by the railways' historic adoption of different electrification systems, either 1,500 or 3,000 volts direct current or 25,000 volts 50 hertz or 15,000 volts 16 2/3 hertz alternating current.

His system for home and office electrification ran on low-voltage direct current, while that of his main competitor, George Westinghouse, was powered by high-voltage alternating current.

With alternating current, especially with relatively high overhead-wire voltages (10,000 volts or above), fewer substations are required, and the lighter overhead current supply wire that can be used correspondingly reduces the weight of structures needed to support it, to the further benefit of capital costs of electrification.

It involves playing with the nature of alternating current.

Edison, an advocate of direct current, was competing with George Westinghouse, who favored alternating current.

This vibration creates an alternating current that can be tapped.

This would turn the rapid alternating current into a direct current, which is easier to handle.

This vast installation will transform high-voltage direct current to alternating current.