Sentence examples for alternating current systems from inspiring English sources

April 9, 1865 Wrocław, Poland October 26 , 1923Schenectady, New York Charles Proteus Steinmetz, original name Karl August Rudolf Steinmetz (born April 9, 1865, Breslau, Prussia died Oct. 26, 1923, Schenectady, N.Y., U.S). German-born American electrical engineer whose ideas on alternating current systems helped inaugurate the electrical era in the United States.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz, original name Karl August Rudolf Steinmetz (born April 9, 1865, Breslau, Prussia died Oct. 26, 1923, Schenectady, N.Y., U.S). German-born American electrical engineer whose ideas on alternating current systems helped inaugurate the electrical era in the United States.

The battery installation will also assist with a different kind of grid stabilization: trying to keep the alternating current system correctly synchronized.

At earlier world's fairs, the key draws were often exotic products from distant lands and gee-whiz inventions like the Ferris wheel and the alternating current system of electricity.

Grid operators around the country are looking for storage devices that can accept signals to draw power off the system or give it back on short notice — usually at four-second intervals — to balance supply and demand and keep the alternating current system properly synchronized.

In Stephentown, N.Y., near Albany, a Massachusetts company, Beacon Power, is building a bank of 200 one-ton flywheels that will store energy from the grid on a moment-to-moment basis to keep the alternating current system at a strict 60 cycles.

The committee's preferred system was a 3,000 volt, three-phase alternating current system proposed by Hungarian electrical engineering company Ganz.

Even the so-called "War of Currents" between Edison's direct current system and George Westinghouse's alternating current scheme mirrors the rivalry between Apple's Macintosh operating systems and Microsoft's DOS and Windows software.

These relays monitor the alternating current system (which in India is 50 cycles, compared with 60 cycles in North America).

The third is the possibility of reducing the grid's complexity by breaking it up into smaller areas, each using a conventional alternating current system, and linking them with direct current, which transfers energy but not disturbances.

Flexible alternating current transmission systems (FACTS) devices have proved to be very effective and viable in alleviating the problems of electrical transmission systems.