Sentence examples for harnessing electricity from inspiring English sources

He was correct to conclude that lightning is a natural electrical discharge – those were the early days of harnessing electricity – but it's not clear that his celebrated kite-and-key experiment in 1752 ever went beyond a mere idea, not least because the kite was depicted, in Franklin's account, as being flown – impossibly – out of a window.

Just consider the effects of society harnessing electricity, embracing jet air travel, or the ubiquitous use of the Internet.

When Karlheinz harnessed electricity into sound and showed the rest of us, he sparked off a sun that is still burning and will glow for a long time.

The hypothesis helped explain the numbing effects of anesthetics, which block the activity of ions, and it made possible devices that harness electricity from brain cells to operate prosthetic limbs.

The protagonist is a former messenger named Cole who awoke after the blast infused with an array of newfound powers that are unleashed by his newfound ability to directly harness electricity in his own body.

He was the first man to harness electricity to freeze time to an instant.

Merry-go-rounds built for schools harness electricity as the students spin them around, Fast Company reported.

Yat's system combines a microbial fuel cell with a photoelectrochemical cell, a type of solar cell, to harness electricity from the bacteria that feeds on wastewater's organic compounds, such as feces in sewage.

The development of department stores was linked to the growth in the 19th century of large population centres, transportation, and the harnessing of electricity for power and lighting.

This book does not convincingly illustrate the magnitude of change Mr. Johnson attributes to the self-organization principle; he predicts that it will usher in a revolution "every bit as significant" as the one unleashed by our harnessing of electricity.

If a "practical quantum computer" — as Dr. Rose, who has a doctorate in physics, often describes Orion — had been built and demonstrated, it would be a wonderful thing: analogous, according to quantum computing's most ardent promoters, to the development of the transistor, or even the harnessing of electricity.