Sentence examples for system of wiring from inspiring English sources

Similarly in the morning the house "turns itself on, as it has every morning since the family had it retrofitted with the Smart House system of wiring five years ago" – although disappointingly this turns out to mean turning the heating and hot water on, which my house can do, and starting up the coffee machine and oven by themselves – surely a disaster waiting to happen.

In the early 1900s, when contractors were busy electrifying industrial buildings, electrical wires were run through existing gas pipes, resulting in today's conduit system of wiring.

Each voltage pair has a separate distribution system of wiring leading from the meters and master switches to circuit breaker panels, where it is further broken down into circuits similar to residential uses.

A system of wires underneath the roadway can determine the flow of traffic inside the tunnel by measuring the tunnel's surface weight at any given time.

Says there are fifteen bells, four of which are attached to a stick held in the right hand; the nine others are attached by a complicated system of wires and pulleys.

Crucially, Audubon also painted his birds to scale, using a system of wires and pins to arrange each specimen in a life-like posture from which he could transfer its image onto paper.

Each antenna element is 45 metres (148 feet) in diameter and is constructed using a novel, inexpensive system of wire trusses to replace the conventional steel beam backup structure of the parabolic surface.

He coined the term Ethernet to describe the system of wires and microchips that allow computers linked locally to talk to one another without drowning each other out.

"By 2008 it was clear that this system of wire-transfer checks had been abused," the regulator says, and U-turns with Iran were banned.

Without competition, there is no spur for innovation, which is why electricity transmission and distribution the system of wires, towers and poles that transmits electricity from the power plant to your home haven't changed much since the regulators stepped in.

To snap wildlife farther off the shore, Shiras employed a method he called "flashlight trapping," in which he suspended ropes hooked up to a system of wires that triggered a remotely controlled camera and a flash.